“There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”
“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.”
| Tori Amos, Musician (1963) |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer (1908) |
| Claude Debussy, Composer (1862) |
| Julius J. Epstein, Dramatist (1909) |
| Charles Fillmore, Educator (1854) |
| Valerie Harper, Actress (1940) |
| Peter James, Writer (1948) |
| Nina Bawden, Writer (2012) |
| Charles W. Eliot, Educator (1926) |
| Charles William Eliot, Educator (1926) |
| James T. Farrell, Novelist (1979) |
| Luc Ferrari, Composer (2005) |
| Eric Johnston, Businessman (1963) |
| Jack Layton, Politician (2011) |
| Jerry Leiber, Musician (2011) |