When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.

Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

I want all my pain to count for something.

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do.

Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast―absence itself―as important as the light and marble, for one cannot exist without the other.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

Human beings are not black and white.

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

No one is ever as shocked and surprised as when the inevitable occurs.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.