My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.