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

I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

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

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

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

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

For me the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.