In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

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

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

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

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.