Above all else, love and forgive. Understand that people who disagree with you are not necessarily idiots or your enemies. Respect the wisdom of the founding fathers and individual rights and freedoms. Always see the beauty and humor in life.

I try to save a life a day, usually it is my own.

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
--Henry David Thoreau