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Try not to become a man of success
but rather try to become a man of value.

After a certain number of years,
our faces become our biographies.

A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors;
for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

If you carry your childhood with you,
you never become older.

Family faces are magic mirrors.
Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, the present, and the future.

Who we are takes generations to create
and doesn't end with death.

It's important to teach our children their heritage. Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? Each of us has a story to tell.
If these stories are unwritten, then how are your children going to know of their parentage?

What the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house, like a lot of houses. A yard like a lot of other yards. On a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back with wonder.