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

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.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

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.

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

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.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.