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.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

And for those who fear Allah, he will make their path easy.

Most of the Israelis reside in settlement blocs which will be part of the state of Israel in the future, and they will remain in their homes.

There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.

Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.