But Then, As Far As I Know,

You're Always Being Judged. No Matter What You Do, It's Not The Right Thing. If You Didn't Become Successful, Then You'd Be Pointed At As One Of Those Creatures Down Their Who Didn't Take Advantage Of This Or That, Who Didn't Climb And Rise And So Forth.

My Parents Were Teachers And They Went Out Of Their Way To See To It That I Had Books. We Grew Up In A Home That Was Full Of Books. And So I Learned To Read. I Loved To Read.

I Acknowledge Immense Debt To The Griots [tribal Poets] Of Africa - Where Today It Is Rightly Said That When A Griot Dies, It Is As If A Library Has Burned To The Ground.

I Look At My Books The Way Parents Look At Their Children. The Fact That One Becomes More Successful Than The Others Doesn't Make Me Love The Less Successful One Any Less.

Indeed Optimists Rather Than Defeatists Have Produced The Results For Which Serious Genealogical Research Is Best Known.