Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

I could make a difference.

I want to be a professional.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

in life it is better to be a supporting pillar than a destroying caterpillar

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.

Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.