Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it.

I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.

I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.

You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.

The record business sucks!