I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Almost everybody embraces life.