Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.
Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.
It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.
One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
Cancers of all types among women are increasing
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.
Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.
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