When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

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

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.