Remember when thirty seemed old Now lookin’ back, it’s just a steppin’ stone To where we are, where we’ve been Said we’d do it all again… remember when.
— Singer/songwriter Alan Jackson

“Momma always said life is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump

“The past is never dead; it is not even past.” — William Faulkner

When I retire, I’m going to do so on a lake with two identical docks, parallel to each other, so when I arise each morning I’ll be reminded that life is a paradox.