Christopher Reeve

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I’m willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

Christopher Reeve

I remember telling a neurosurgeon, ‘Don’t give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset.’

Christopher Reeve

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don’t know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

Christopher Reeve

In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.

Christopher Reeve

It’s defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it’s hard to resist considering what might have been.

Christopher Reeve

It’s important to me to say what I really mean.

Christopher Reeve

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can’t move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

Christopher Reeve

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Christopher Reeve

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.

Christopher Reeve

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have – and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.

Christopher Reeve