I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.