The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.