I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what God's got in store for you.
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
| Yukiya Amano, Public Servant (1947) |
| J. M. Barrie, Novelist (1860) |
| James M. Barrie, Playwright (1860) |
| Gregory Bateson, Scientist (1904) |
| Vince Cable, Politician (1943) |
| Howard Carter, Scientist (1874) |
| Rosario Dawson, Actress (1979) |
| Manfred Eigen, Scientist (1927) |
| Albert Finney, Actor (1936) |
| Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1883) |
| Nelson Algren, Novelist (1981) |
| Dan Devine, Coach (2002) |
| Brenda Fassie, Musician (2004) |
| Paul Gauguin, Artist (1903) |
| Mary Johnston, Novelist (1936) |
| Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman (2004) |
| Alan King, Comedian (2004) |


