I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

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.

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

That is what I think about women: We can do so much and take care of so much that we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to fully get it all handled.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

I like people recognizing me.

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

I don't care if I have to run 100 times or pass it 100 times, ... Whatever it takes to win is all that matters to me.