I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

I don't very often read novels.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

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

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.