"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."
"The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life."
"We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But, it is wearing you out.That is why I say the tragedy that is facing mankind is not AIDS or cancer, but Alzthiemer's disease."
"I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us."
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
"Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!"
"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
"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."
"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
"I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit."
"I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general."
"Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it."
"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body."
"I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'"
"A new report says that dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with almost 98 percent accuracy. The report also finds that cats can sniff it out with 100 percent accuracy but they prefer to watch you die."