Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

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.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.

Commitment is a line you must cross. . . . it is the difference between dreaming and doing.

Jace wasn’t exactly prone to random fits of panic

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.