The older we get the less afraid we are.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

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

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

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.