Spreuken over Leven

I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle class morality

There are a lot of elderly residents that are still living in this region. And people have been bringing them water and food everyday. They have no health care, they have no electricity, no generators. There's no FEMA, there's nobody helping these people.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

I've exhausted my savings. I'm living off of my insurance settlement check until I can get my business back open and get back up on my feet. I'm lucky that I didn't lose my home, though my business did get looted and burnt to the ground -- one of them -- and the other one lost one-third of its roof. It's five months into the rebuilding process now and I'm still waiting on my insurance checks.

I wouldn't live in anything else. Eichler homes are a religion with me.