Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

My father was a manual worker.

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.