No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Acceptance is the key to everything.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.