In America, It Is Difficult To Be

Forgiveness Works Two Ways, In Most Instances. People Have To Forgive Themselves Too. The Powerful Have To Forgive Themselves For Their Behavior. That Should Be A Sacred Process.

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?

If You Apply Reason And Logic To This Career Of Mine, You're Not Going To Get Very Far. You Simply Won't.

I'd Seen My Father. He Was A Poor Man, And I Watched Him Do Astonishing Things.

If I'm Remembered For Having Done A Few Good Things And If My Presence Here Has Sparked Some Good Energies, That's Plenty.