A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's face it, the world is in a mess. Right now, the young people will inherit that mess. I think we have to do everything we can.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.