I ended my presentation to the medical students by talking about my family and how fortunate I've been. It's somewhat embarrassing to acknowledge that absent... the tremendous degree to which my wife put aside her own interests to promote my career, that I was able to do as much as I've done.
It is our great fortune, hers and mine, that we've had the marvellous children that we have, and our further great fortune that they, in turn, have picked spouses about whom we feel as strongly as we do about them, and that the third generation are... is proving to be every bit as important to us and, in our view, potentially contributing citizens, as our children have been. One of our granddaughters has just started teaching fourth grade and in a public school in Boston, inner city Boston, and when you have... and since I've already talked about how crucial I feel the whole area of our children and education is, you know how gratifying that is to me.
So, a marvellous life, one that has been full of extremely good friends, people whom I've been fortunate enough to be mentored by, and people whom I've been even more enriched by helping to mentor.