Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.