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.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for 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.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

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.