"I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids."

"Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday."

"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."

"I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am."

"I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays."

"Children have an instinctive understanding of what is real and what is fake."

"But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion."

"A gentleman is simply a patient wolf."