family

family

January 1, 1950

This I Believe

If I could sum up what I believe in a single sentence, I think it would this: I believe in the future. This is the star which has guided my life, and I have tried to instill this faith in...
January 1, 1950

This I Believe

I shall never forget a lesson in responsibility my mother taught me. She showed me that a younger brother learning to throw a baseball was really not responsible for breaking the bay window of the parsonage. She told me, “You...
January 1, 1950

Uniting Into A Proud National Family

I have been an American now for eight years. I was born in a small town in Italy. I cannot separate from my personal philosophy my feeling about my new country. For me, America has always meant strength, enormous vitality,...
January 1, 1950

This I Believe

There are several beliefs to which I hold strongly and by which my life is guided. They are interwoven with each other, and they have grown and changed over the more than half century in which I’ve lived. First, I...
January 1, 1950

In the Company of Beauty

My journey, hitherto, has been kindly, neither in a savage environment nor in one protected from the shocks of life. My father was a forty-niner to California, reckless and always ready for adventure. After making two or three fortunes and...