Quotes from Christopher Reeve

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.

I gradually stopped wondering, 'What life do I have?' and began to consider, 'What life can I build?

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.