You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.