I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Almost everybody embraces life.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?