What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

The first step is you have to say that you can.