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I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

I had difficulty working for other people.

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.