You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.

I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.