By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

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.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.