In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it

the nurse smiled and patted my arm. “Don’t give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written The End, what he really means is The Beginning.

Living is hard--dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really--except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.

Gabe held my face between his hands. “What you two have — it’s a once in a lifetime — you fight for him, sweetheart. Fight for him with every last breath. No regrets, okay?

The answer of life struggles in between two kinds of people- those who live to dreamand those who dream to liveAsk them the question about death if they can truly conceive

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields].

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.