I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.

I want to reclaim who I am.

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

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

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.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.