“You can’t always choose the path that you walk in life, but you can always choose the manner in which you walk it.” John O’Leary January 17, 1987 – St. Louis, Missouri: John O’Leary had watched older kids in his neighborhood playing with fire....
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try one more time.” Thomas Edison March 1, 1963 – University of Colorado Hospital – Denver, Colorado: On a beautiful early spring...
“God will not look us over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.” Elbert Hubbard Pea Island, North Carolina, June 1878: Station No. 17, the Pea Island Life Saving Station, was...
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary December 2011, Mt. Kilimanjaro Base Camp, Nalemoru, Tanzania: The porters and guides gawked and giggled. They called her Mama Kubwa, Swahili for ‘big woman.’ At 300 pounds, Kara Whitely...
“As the traveler who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse’s neck and trusts the animal’s instinct to find his road, so must we do with the Divine…who carries us through this world.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Silverton,...
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” Wilma Rudolph June 1940 – Clarksville,...