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

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.

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.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

The Bible stands as the supreme Constitution for all mankind, its laws applying equally to all who live under its domain, without exception or special interpretation.

Connecting with yourself and knowing yourself is a monumental and life changing event.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera!

Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

I shook Steve Jobs hand.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.