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plans for myself. I was almost totally without ambitions. That's absolutely true, so help me God. I never had a ray of ambition - not a ray, not enough honestly to go from here to the railroad station. I had no ambition. I was a natural optimist at that age. I had a very good time. Life was my oyster, but I never expected to arrive anywhere.

The things that I did in the way of social work and social projects, which seem to have been successful, were items I took up because at the moment they moved me very deeply. They seemed right. Nobody else was there to do it and I did it. Once embarked upon a project, I wanted to win. I didn't want to be a tennis star, but I wanted to win the particular game I was playing. It was that kind of thing. You don't want to come into a thing and not come out right.

But I didn't have any ambition. I never expected to arrive anywhere. I never expected to be an important professional anything, much less a political figure. It had never crossed my mind. I didn't care whether I was an important social worker, a writer, or anything else. I had no ambitions at all. I couldn't have told where I wanted to go. I never had any desire to write, because I'm lazy about things like that, but I always wrote pretty well. My father was always sayings to me, “You really ought