Gilda Radner

“I can always be a person who has had a cancer... but I don't have to be a person who is living with cancer.”

“Having cancer gave me membership in a club I'd rather not belong to.”

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”

“Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I was going through.”

“Most of all, I've learned to live in the moment and not to worry about the future. It's not my affair.”

“There are those who believe that a new path is forged by complaining, but I have always felt that the soul is more enriched by having a laugh.”

“The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity.”

“Humor is just truth, only faster.”

“Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.”

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.”

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”

“It's always something.”

“I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”

“Never mind!”

“Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.”