That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.