Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

Today is the best day I could ever have.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

If you want to avoid Alzheimer's disease, sleep 8 hours a night.

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!

Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.

Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.

If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.

I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.

Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.

[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses

Well, I hate to tell youbut if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

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