Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Were a lot of those guys ready? No. We had to force feed them due to circumstances with payroll, ... They went through growing pains, but a year or two later, things started to jell for them.

I didn't want to be a dad under those circumstances. I never wanted to have to have children who would hear the kind of conversations I had to hear my parents having, wondering where the money was going to come from for the next rent.