I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

I defend myself by improving myself.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.