I could make a difference.

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 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.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

Walk in the light pathways.

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

Have the confidence to fail. Persistence is key.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.