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

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

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

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.

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.