All Through My Childhood, My Father Kept

Excitement About Things Became A Habit, A Part Of My Personality, And The Expectation That I Should Enjoy New Experiences Often Engendered The Enjoyment Itself.

All Through My Childhood, My Father Kept From Me The Knowledge That The Daily Papers Printed Daily Box Scores, Allowing Me To Believe That Without My Personal Renderings Of All Those Games He Missed While He Was At Work, He Would Be Unable To Follow Our Team In The Only Proper Way A Team Should Be Followed, Day By Day, Inning By Inning. In Other Words, Without Me, His Love For Baseball Would Be Forever Incomplete.

Go Ahead, And Fear Not. You Will Have A Full Library At Your Service.

I Think The Most Important Advice Is, A Person Doesn't Have To Find Out Right Away. It's Not Like Their First Attempt At Finding A Profession Is The Only One They're Going To Find. I Might Well Have Gone Down Other Paths, And It Still Might Have Been Okay. But If You Find Something That You Love, And If It Keeps Deepening With Each New Experience, Then Just Stay With It.

Washington Was A Typical American. Napoleon Was A Typical Frenchman, But Lincoln Was A Humanitarian As Broad As The World. He Was Bigger Than His Country - Bigger Than All The Presidents Together. We Are Still Too Near To His Greatness,' (leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) Concluded, 'but After A Few Centuries More Our Posterity Will Find Him Considerably Bigger Than We Do. His Genius Is Still Too Strong And Powerful For The Common Understanding, Just As The Sun Is Too Hot When Its Light Beams Directly On Us.' (748)