This collection of "This I Believe" essays gathers seventy-five essayists - ranging from famous to previously unknown - completing the thought that begins the bookś title. With contributors who run the gamut from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, to professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, to Sister Helen Prejean and Robert Fulghum, to ordinary folks like a diner waitress, an Iraq War veteran, a farmer, a new husband, and many others, "This I Believe II", is filled with wonderful and surprising essays about forgiveness, personal integrity, and honoring life and change.