If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.