What truly Matters in Life

The other day, a friend gave to me a clip out of a local paper with the following quotation:
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - because someday you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver,
* Born: c. 1860
* Birthplace: Diamond Grove, Missouri
* Died: 5 January 1943
* Best Known As: America's great peanut innovator"

"a celebrated botanist and inventor at a time when it was still rare for African-Americans to reach those heights. The son of a Missouri slave, Carver grew up to attend Iowa State University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1894 and a master's in 1896. He then joined the faculty of Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. His attempts to find crop alternatives to cotton led him to the peanut; eventually he created more than 325 products from the humble legume, helping to create demand for the plant and establish it as a major American crop. Carver also worked with sweet potatoes, soybeans and pecans, among other plants, and is often credited with changing the face of agriculture in the American south."- Answers.com