"strong" To People Means "real." It Means

What I Learned Is, We Have To Listen To Each Other, Even When We Don't Agree, Even When We Think We Hate Each Other. We Have To Listen To Each Others Narratives. Not Interrupt Defensively, Or With Hostility, But Really Try To Open Our Hearts And Listen With Empathy. I Learned So Much From That Meeting. It Was A Very Difficult Thing To Do And It Was One Of The Best Things That I Ever Did In My Life. Look What Scares You In The Face, And Try To Understand It. Empathy, I Have Learned, Is Revolutionary.

When You Know In Your Heart Why You Did Something, And You Feel And You Know That In Spite Of All The Controversy That It Was Right, Doesn't Matter.

Shortly After I Turned 50, Both Ted Turner And The Aarp Came Into My Life. The Only Difference? With Aarp, There Were Benefits.

Enjoyable Does Not Necessarily Mean Easy.

I'm An Assistant Storyteller. It's Like Being A Waiter Or A Gas-station Attendant, But I'm Waiting On Six Million People A Week, If I'm Lucky.