The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

The mantra I used was 'find a way.'