Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

When marrying ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

What most persons consider as virtue after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.