"Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down."

"I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning."

"I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy."

"A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live."

"I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country."

"I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic."

"Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him."

"In the tapestry of human existence, every trial adds depth to the design. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."