We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

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.

Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.

...we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into the sea...

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.