#it

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#believe #ethical #greater #harm #humility

I don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#any #conform #define #definition #expression

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#because #brain #enough #evaluate #formed

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#capacity #differences #each #give #how

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#amazing thing #away #believe #expression #fight

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#ambition #clicked #first #first thing #five

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#films #i #important #learned #make

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high. ↗

— Barry Mann

#i #sober #songs #written

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#clinical #condition #i #i love #irony

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#being #family #happiness #i #i love