A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

You create wealth by what you give.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.