I view life this way: life is a creative process. When we come into this world, we're one way - which is constantly being honed, maneuvered, hammered, to create someone different and new by the end of our life. Life is a long, ongoing journey of being created. We become when we are born, and then all the processes of life: those experiences, those joys, those understandings, those beliefs, all shape us into something that culminates at the end of life. Now, I'm in that latter stage of life, alright? So I have been through a lot of those earlier steps. And there have been many things that have happened to me over the course of my life that have made me look back and look at life differently than I used to.

So all of those things have shaped me into who I am and what I am, what I believe and what I think the world is. And what I have learned from all of those processes and experiences is this: life isn't about me, or who I am and what I am. It's about what I can contribute, and what I can be to better the lives of everyone else. It's not about what I can accomplish for myself. It's about what I can do to help others.

I used to think that we have to find our purpose in life, but I realized everybody has the same purpose: it's to love other people, to love the world… and in doing that, you're loving the universe or the being that incorporates the whole. Your sole purpose in life. It's not about you. It's about what you can do. For others. That's what makes you who you are and what you are. When I go, and when I am done, if I could just have somebody say, 'he was a good man', that would be enough for me. 'He was a good man'. I think that's it.