Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.