“Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.”
“What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!”
| Kit Carson, Explorer (1809) |
| Ava Gardner, Actress (1922) |
| Tarja Halonen, Statesman (1943) |
| Saint Ignatius, Saint (1491) |
| Johnny Isakson, Politician (1944) |
| Juan Ramon Jimenez, Poet (1881) |
| James Prescott Joule, Physicist (1818) |
| Anil Kapoor, Actor (1959) |
| Hamid Karzai, Statesman (1957) |
| Joel Barlow, Poet (1812) |
| Frederic Bastiat, Economist (1850) |
| William Cameron Forbes, Diplomat (1959) |
| George Gerbner, Journalist (2005) |