Without the support and love from so many people in my life, above all my wife and my family…without the close friendships with which I have been blessed…without the kindness so many people have spontaneously shown…without the oxygen of freedom and rule of law that the United States gave my family…without the education that in my darkness gave me material to help sustain my mind…without the example of great men and women in my life and in history… I am convinced that I would have lain where I fell.
