Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

I believe that there is God in all of us

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.