If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.
I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.
I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.
I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.
Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.
I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.