If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.

It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.