Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

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

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

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

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.