In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

Never sell your soul.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.