To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

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

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

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.

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

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

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.