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

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

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

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

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

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

I don't very often read novels.