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I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
Bob Balaban, Actor (1945) |
Angela Bassett, Actress (1958) |
James Cameron, Director (1954) |
Steve Carell, Actor (1963) |
Vanessa Carlton, Musician (1980) |
Arthur Cayley, Mathematician (1821) |
Hugh Dalton, Politician (1887) |
Francis Darwin, Scientist (1848) |
Stockwell Day, Politician (1950) |
William F. DeVault, Poet (1955) |
Idi Amin, Statesman (2003) |
Wolcott Gibbs, Writer (1958) |
Robert Johnson, Psychologist (1938) |
Wanda Landowska, Musician (1959) |
Irving Langmuir, Scientist (1957) |