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

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

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.

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

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.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.