Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.