This book is the culmination of nearly 50 years of writing down my thoughts. Thoughts, like history itself, are lost forever unless they are recorded. But unlike history, thoughts are revealed only in our individual minds. Therefore, each of us must serve as the custodian of our thoughts and as the historian who records them. If our thoughts are worth remembering, then they are worth recording; for how else will we be able to ponder the meaning of the words.