Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.