Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

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.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

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

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