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

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

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