We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

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

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

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

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

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