True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.