POINTS TO PONDER I
From Reader's Digest
July, 1994

Charles Spezzano
You don't really pay for things with money. You pay for them with time. "In five years I'll have put enough away to buy that vacation house we want. Then I'll slow down." That means the house will cost you five years - one twelfth of your adult life. Translate the dollar value of the house, car, or anything else into time, and then see if it's still worth it. Sometimes you can't do what you want and have what you want at once because each requires a different expenditure of time. The phrase spending your time is not a metaphor. It's how life works.

Jane Goodall (speaking of her mother) 
When I was two years old, I took a crowd of earthworms to bed to watch how they wiggled in the bedclothes. How many mothers would have said "Ugh" and thrown them out the window? But mine said, "Jane, if you leave the worms here they'll be dead in the morning. They need the earth." So I quickly gathered them up and ran into the garden. My mother always looked at things form my point of view.