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

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

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

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

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

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.