I Had Learned Something Of Miami From

A Person Doesn't Have To Change Who He Is To Become Better.

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?

We're All Imperfect, And Life Is Simply A Perpetual, Unending Struggle Against Those Imperfections.

I Would Like To Grow Less Afraid Of Dying. I Am Infinitely Less Afraid Today Than I Was 15 Or 25 Years Ago. I Was Most Afraid Of Dying When I Was 33, Because I Come From A Catholic Family.

I Always Wanted To Be Someone Better The Next Day Than I Was The Day Before.