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My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
~ Olivia Newton-John

Bill Hemmer: "You said cancer changes your life, and oftentimes for the better."
Joel Siegel: "Yes.... Gilda Radner... said this in her book. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff. And what Gilda said is, if it weren't for the downside, everyone would want to have it. But there is a downside."
~ American Morning, CNN, 13 June 2003

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.
~ John Cheever

During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.
~ Melissa Bank

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
~ Gilbert Adair, "Under the Sign of Cancer," Myths and Memories, 1986

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
~ Nikolai Lenin

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
~ Author Unknown

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene
Supports the mind supports the body too.
~ John Armstrong

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
~ Winston Churchill