He always thought of everybody but himself. All through high school he was always the one who would make peace. He was what you'd call a (mediator).

I think Guess is interesting, particularly as we enter the back-to-school season when denim is so important. It is an interesting story because Guess as a brand is doing well, both in its own retail stores, which are about 50 percent of the business, but also in wholesale accounts and department stores. It is really the one hot brand that department stores have today. Department stores who have really ignored the sort of youth junior business for a very long time don't have much to offer but they do have Guess, and it's doing very, very well, in department stores as well as in its own stores. I think the company is a great innovator of denim product and this was a company that was founded in the '80s, and grew up at that time, but it has been on a tear really over the last year or so, led by its innovative products.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Once you graduate from high school and go to college, they need to leave here because they get nothing else. Our boys don't have a ghost of a chance.

I sat in a small room at school and came up with an answer to the problem. The girl turned around and was able to finish the 6th grade. That's an experience I never did forget and made me stretch more than I wanted to.

I thought we were going to beat her up.