Graduate / Starting my essay for Physician's Assistant Program [5]

I have to write a 500 word maximum personal statement as to why I want to become a Physician's Assistant.

I wanted to run this idea by people to see what the general consensus is.

When I was younger I attended a cancer survivors day, and remember one particularly moving and motivating speech by a patient who was told he had months to live. 10 years later, here he was delivering a speech cancer free. He spoke about how before his encounter with cancer he took life for granted. He then went on to speak about how he became appreciative and observant of things he never before had such as the leaves changing colors, the beauty of the world, and every moment was precious.

I was thinking about starting to paper off with a quote from him, then explaining how it moved me and motivated me to go into the medical field.

Is this a good idea? I think it could potentially be very captivating as well as creative. Thanks for the input and thoughts.