Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want.

Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.

Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

Please don't die.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer -- people who get it don't live long enough.

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.

I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.