I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.