Prodigy Quotes

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

To just meet people that have Crohn's or colitis and to hear their stories gives me a lot of hope and a lot of courage.

I've met a ton of new people who have colitis or Crohn's. Talking to them has been probably the most healing thing: to hear other people's attitudes on how they deal with their disease and how they stay positive.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.

I didn't tell people because I didn't want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn't get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don't have to be victims.

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.

Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.

We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.

There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.