I don't very often read novels.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.