If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

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 cannot be understood in three minutes.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

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.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.