Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.

When they turn the pages of history,when these days have passed long ago--will they read of us with sadnessfor the seeds that we let grow?

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

Angry people talk about the past, geniuses act for the future.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.