You don't treat cancer - you fight it.

Very few people around the world know that cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined - until we get everyone to realize that, it will be tough to get them to act.

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

I'd take my clothes off for chocolate and peanut butter.

Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

Do not unto others that which is hateful unto thee.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!