A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Italo Calvino, Journalist (1923) |
Jane Darwell, Actress (1879) |
Paige Davis, Actress (1969) |
Sarah Ferguson, (1959) |
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist (1908) |
Lee Iacocca, Businessman (1924) |
Tito Jackson, Musician (1953) |
Abdul Kalam, Statesman (1931) |
Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity (1959) |
Linda Lavin, Actress (1937) |
Vincent Canby, Critic (2000) |
Mata Hari, Dancer (1917) |
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Coach (1852) |
Randall Jarrell, Poet (1965) |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Poet (1838) |
Pierre Laval, Politician (1945) |