What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
| Namie Amuro, Musician (1977) |
| Mychael Danna, Musician (1958) |
| James Dewar, Scientist (1842) |
| Dante Hall, Athlete (1978) |
| Kristen Johnston, Actress (1967) |
| Henry Arthur Jones, Dramatist (1851) |
| Van Jones, Activist (1968) |
| William Kapell, Musician (1922) |
| Elizabeth Kenny, Celebrity (1880) |
| Guy Lafleur, Athlete (1951) |
| Robert Emmet, Activist (1803) |
| Paul Erdos, Mathematician (1996) |
| Fiorello LaGuardia, Politician (1947) |

