We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

We are your brothers, your daughters, your friends. We just happened to have been wrapped in a smaller package.

The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.

Try being my size and going into a public restroom.

I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

The days you work are the best days.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

Methods are the masters of masters.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.