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

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

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

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

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.