Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
Each material has its own message.
We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.