My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

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

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

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

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

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.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.