333 Quotes by Michael J. Fox

I don’t look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

Carry on. If you’re going to do something, just do it.

Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, “Oh, man, you’re messing with my brain. It’s freaking me out.”

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today’s events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Going public was a difficult decision, and I had misgivings. My subjective experience was now an objective fact in the wider world. It didn’t belong to just me anymore – though I quickly learned that it hadn’t belonged to just me in the first place. More than a million Americans and their families were going through the same thing; some openly, some in secret due to concerns of being misunderstood and marginalized.

I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, “If you didn’t know how old you were, how old would you think you were?” I started changing it in my mind right away to, “If you didn’t know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?”

This is why the license plates say Beautiful British Columbia, and I realized just how much I would miss it. But all this natural beauty exists only in response to rain, I reminded myself, and the occasional day of technicolor spectacle was bought and paid for with weeks and weeks of dull, damp gray. I wasn’t going to miss the gray. If.