Sometimes, The Thing That Ties You Down

In Order To Achieve Anything You Must Be Brave Enough To Fail.

What Would My Parents Think About America If They Arrived Here Today? Would They Even Want To Come? I Wonder.

Unfortunately, Once I Did Learn To Smoke, I Couldn't Stop. I Escalated To Two Packs A Day Very Quickly, And Stayed That Way For About Ten Years. When I Decided To Stop, I Adopted The Method That My Father Had Used When He Quit. He Would Carry A Cigarette In His Shirt Pocket, And Every Time He Felt Like Smoking, He Would Pull Out The Cigarette And Confront It: "who Stronger? You? Me?" Always The Answer Was The Same: "i Stronger." Back The Cigarette Would Go, Until The Next Craving. It Worked For Him, And It Worked For Me.

A Stroke Is A Very Difficult Thing. You Get Depressed. . . . What I Found Was This: The Cure For Depression Is To Think Of Others, To Do For Others. You Can Always Find Something To Be Grateful For.

My Kids Never Had The Advantages I Had. I Was Born Poor.