I Don't Play Golf. Mark

If We Want To Understand The Actions Of A Man In The Early 1860's, Put Yourself Back There In His Shoes. As A Young Man He Began Piloting Steamboats On The Mississippi, A Job He Loved And Wanted To Do The Rest Of His Life, He Said. The Civil War Ended Traffic On The River And His Job. He Wrote About It In A History Of A Campaign That Failed. He Said: "i Joined The Confederacy, Served For Two Weeks, Deserted, And The Confederacy Fell." His Attachment To The Southern Ideal Of Slavery Does Not Appear Very Sturdy.

When The Audience Begins To See The Sunrise On That It's Hard For Them To Turn Away From It Because They're Listening To A Man Talking To Them From Over A Century Ago. And Nothing Has Changed. So What Are You Going To Do About That?

There Was So Much To Learn And It Was All Fun. But The Best Part Was Getting A Laugh From An Audience. That Was Like Drowning In Candy.

To Communicate With Each Other, We Got To Get Mad At Each Other Sometimes.

I Developed A Resistance To Authority. Not To Discipline - I Learned That. But To Authority. I Like To Think For Myself. And I Like To Cause Trouble.