If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

Here, I found people are highly committed to their work. It?s a positive environment. ... It?s a real sense of community, and I can say that for the staff and students.

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

Governments need to create a positive business environment so industry can do the most effective work that it can.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.