Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.