I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.

I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.

Humility is not weakness but a quality of strength.

Originality is the death of mediocrity.

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.

Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.

Followers don't follow until they trust leaders to lead.

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.