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

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

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.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.