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You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.

Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.

The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing... You may decide you want to spend your time working as a neurosurgeon, but two months later, you may want to learn to play the saxophone or devote yourself to the church. Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.

What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.

Lack of time is a real health killer.