I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

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.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids?

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.

By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

Maybe the thing that we're losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.