Obviously not all thoughts of the day are brilliant. This man has obviously never heard the flip side of this, i.e., youth is wasted on the young. "Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals." Samuel Ullman Regarding deserting one's ideals, John Kenneth Galbraith, the famed economist, was once accused of changing his precepts (a/k/a deserting his ideals) when he got new information. He replied, that is correct, sir. What do you do with new information when you get it? Ideals got us into Iraq, and sticking to ideals trapped us there. A Bronx Cheer for Mr. Ullman. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html