Annette Funicello

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.