People ask us why we're buying when we're getting ready to retire. Three of our four grown children have houses, and it's time we owned ours. It's a way of leaving a legacy for them.

We tried to buy it when we first moved in, but it wasn't for sale.

It would be nice if we could switch to a policy where we could support some kind of Iraqi resistance that would take Saddam out of the box. However there's very little support for that in the region.

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Some people are afraid there will be a scarcity of provisions here since the wholesale houses are wrecked. But that is foolishness for we can get provisions in 2 weeks from Portland. There are people who can't think of anyone in distress without imagining that they themselves are to be pitied as sufferers too.