It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
“I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.”
“Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.”