Success and money can really be quite blinding.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

It must have been quite humiliating.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

Luck certainly has a lot to do with any kind of success. But on the other hand, this is a business in which relationships are very important. And also there is oft times a degree of complexity to those relationships. She was always able to represent my point of a view in a way that made it palatable to whoever she was dealing with.

To take that money back to Washington would remove the money from the system and there's no replacement.