But there is one key ingredient that my wife has helped me to recognize over the years, and that is the importance of articulating love for one anoth… - Sidney Poitier

"I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

"I don't mean to be like some old guy from the olden days who says, "I walked thirty miles to school every morning, so you kids should too." That's a statement born of envy and resentment. What I'm saying is something quite different. What I'm saying is that by having very little, I had it good. Children need a sense of pulling their own weight, of contributing to the family in some way, and some sense of the family's interdependence. They take pride in knowing that they're contributing. They learn responsibility and discipline through meaningful work. The values developed within a family that operates on those principles then extend to the society at large. By not being quite so indulged and "protected" from reality by overflowing abundance, children see the bonds that connect them to others."

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.