Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

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

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

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.

My father was very big on marriage.

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.