We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.
| Italo Calvino, Journalist (1923) |
| Jane Darwell, Actress (1879) |
| Paige Davis, Actress (1969) |
| Sarah Ferguson, (1959) |
| John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist (1908) |
| Lee Iacocca, Businessman (1924) |
| Tito Jackson, Musician (1953) |
| Abdul Kalam, Statesman (1931) |
| Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity (1959) |
| Linda Lavin, Actress (1937) |
| Vincent Canby, Critic (2000) |
| Mata Hari, Dancer (1917) |
| Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Coach (1852) |
| Randall Jarrell, Poet (1965) |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Poet (1838) |
| Pierre Laval, Politician (1945) |


