On his 51st birthday, the author decided to make a list of the many things life had taught him. Then he decided to invite friends and acquaintances--from kindergarten kids to senior citizens--to join the effort. The result is the combined wisdom of thousands of years of living:...
"On the morning of my fifty-first birthday," writes author H. Jackson Brown, "I thought it would be interesting and maybe even enlightening to jot down a few things more than half a century of living had taught me." Soon he had accumulated quite a list. When a friend said he...