Well, that’s an interesting question because you acquire various statements. I’ve already mentioned the fact that a Will Rogers said, “I never knew a person that I didn’t like.” With the operative word being knew. I have several quotations on teaching the story of a student that came to, I think it was Plato, or, oh, no, it was Socrates. And he said, “I want to be your student, I want to learn.” And Socrates took a hold of the young man and stuffed his head in a pail of water and held him underneath the water until the guy was blubbering, and you know, essentially ready to wrap it up. And I came up sputtering and said, “Why did you do that?” And Socrates said, “When you want to learn as much as you wanted to breathe, you’re ready to come to me and we’ll teach you about this, that, and the other thing.” So those are things to live by. I have a philosophy of success that consists of attitude, the decision that you make to want to learn something, to do something, the preparation that’s necessary, the practicing of that, the producing actually doing it and persistence. These are the things that result in success in any walk of life, whether it’s veterinary medicine or zoo management or anything else, if you can accomplish those things in their proper order, it’s gonna be to the benefit of whatever you’re seeking to do. You said that your religion played a very important role in your life.
