When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

I think the president is a racist.

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.