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

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

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

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

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.