You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.