I remember when I was a kid watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

Akron Ohio is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron Ohio is my life.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and honestly I may as well just start it again now because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner I think if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.

And remember where you have a concentration of power in a few hands all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.