Learn something new every day.
As Thomas Jefferson once said: "An educated public is the best servant of democracy."

Those are some of the words of a beautiful love song; but in today's troubled world, the words take on new meaning.
If you could spend one hour with a young, misguided terrorist, what would you say to him or her?
Extremists poison the minds of young and vulnerable children, making them more than willing to hate and kill.
One day, hopefully, the world's youth will be educated to the ways of freedom and peace, fairly and objectively.
Recent news reports tell of extremist Muslim schools where children are taught to hate.
Extremist leaders, right now, know and wrongly use the power of education, beginning with very young children.
They use the classroom in the worst possible way - to manipulate, not to educate.
They distort the meaning of 'education'.

There's proof positive in one special event that all the world loves laughter - a clue that humor trumps language differences.
The Peace Corp stationed my son in Paraguay in the 1970s, so I visited him for a couple of weeks.
Meeting many of his friends, I enjoyed conversations with a little help from my rusty Spanish.
One night a bunch of us walked up a hill to the outdoor movie shown once a week in this village, 100 miles by bus from Paraguay's capital.
After the movie we all walked back down the hill, reviewing the movie as we went. I walked next to a younger Paraguayan friend while slowly in Spanish sharing a few enthusiastic thoughts on the show.
Suddenly - simultaneously - we broke into rapid fire chatter, each jabbering in our own language so fast that neither of us understood a word the other said.
Instantly we both stopped; looked at each other, and burst out laughing.

"Looking at Franklin, Kissinger and Einstein, you can spot times when they remained absolutely true to their convictions despite enormous tugs to do otherwise.
"Those were the times of their true greatness.
"This problem-of sticking to your convictions, thus being intellectually honest, yet knowing when to compromise-is the hardest thing to do in life."
(From a new book, Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson)

His bookie says 'We're losing a lot of money based on longevity."
The 100 year old winner made the bet 10 years ago.
Celebrating his 100th April birthday, he credits his longevity to a diet of porridge, and playing chess.
How might you change your life so you could live to be 100?