Quotes from Michael J. Fox

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

Family isn't an important thing. It's everything.

Our challenges don't define us, our actions do.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

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

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

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

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.