A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.