Decide what you want to do then plot how to get there. Self-control is essential. Economic self-control. It still puzzles me why so many people feel that they have to be out several times a week. It costs six or seven times what it cost to prepare that same meal at home.

Then there are all the people who buy lottery tickets and movies and things like that. I was always a voracious reader. I got my entertainment from reading. I’ve never seen a movie that could equal a good book. The mind can furnish things that the movies can’t do.