No Matter How Much Fame You Have,

It Is Ironic That In The Same Year We Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of The Discovery Of Dna, Some Would Have Us Ban Certain Forms Of Dna Medical Research. Restricting Medical Research Has Very Real Human Consequences, Measured In Loss Of Life And Tremendous Suffering For Patients And Their Families.

If You Want To Be An Agent Of Change, It Starts With You And What You're Made Of.

If You Fixate On The Worst-case Scenario And It Actually Happens, You’ve Lived It Twice.

I Have Now Is Whenever My Kids Say, "can You Look At This?" Or "can I Ask You Something?" Or "can You Come Here For A Minute?" No Matter What I Am Doing, I Say Yes Instead Of Saying, "just A Sec." They Never Abuse The Privilege, And I Never Once Regretted It. What They Took Me Away To Do Was Never Less Important Than What I Was Doing Already.

I Take The Medication For Myself So I Can Transact, Not For Anyone Else. But I Am Aware That It Is Empowering For People To See What I Do And, For The Most Part, People In The Parkinson's Community Are Just Really Happy That Parkinson's Is Getting Mentioned, And Not In A Pitying Way.