To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

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

As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

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