Michael J. Fox Quotes

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

Both 'Saturday Church' and 'Pose' are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

Not every single minute of your career will go well, individually and collectively, and not every season will go how you want it to, but it's how you react to that.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I've had disappointments. But once you realise that things can't always go your own way, you're on the right track to being able to handle your own life.

I had a husband who stayed with me, and small children, and I had no choice but to pull myself together and rebuild a different kind of life. There was no other choice.

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!