Christopher Reeve

Timing is very important: words can only have a positive effect on others if and when they are ready to listen.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. The fifteen-year-old boy who landed on his head while wrestling with his brother, leaving him paralyzed and barely able to swallow or speak. Travis Roy, paralyzed in the first eleven seconds of a hockey game in his freshman year at college. Harry Steifel, paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident at seventeen, completing his education and working on Wall Street at age thirty-two, but having missed so much of what life has to offer. These are the real heroes, and so are the many families and friends who have stood by them.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.

I have to stop this cascade of memories, or at least take them out of their drawer only for a moment, have a brief look, and put them back. I know how to do it now: I have to take the key to acting and apply it to my life. There is no other way to survive except to be in the moment. Just as my accident and its aftermath caused me to redefine what a hero, I've had to take a hard look at what it means to live as fully as possible in the present. How do you survive in the moment when it's bleak and painful and the past seems so seductive?

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

What I didn’t expect was that in this country, home of “Truth, Justice and the American way,” hope would be determined by politics.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

A Hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

He was like an untied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released. I

If I can laugh, I can live.