It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.