I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I grew up in a Navy family.

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.