“Trying times are no time to quit trying. The secret of success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” John Mason May 27, 1936 – Salinas, California: It had been a tough week for John Steinbeck. He tried to be in good humor...
“Don’t listen to those who say, “It’s not done that way.” Maybe it’s not, but maybe you’ll do it anyway. Don’t listen to those who say, “You’re taking too big a chance.” Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, which would surely be rubbed out...
“Hold fast to dreams; for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Langston Hughes Fall 1969 – Salt Lake City, Utah: Carroll Spinney had just spent the last two months...
‘If you want to change the world, pick up your pen.” Martin Luther November 25, 1862 – The White House, Washington, D.C.: Abraham Lincoln wasn’t looking forward to meeting with anti-slavery activist Harriet Beecher Stowe. She had been openly critical in the...
“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.” Frederick Buechner February 1995 – Brisbane, Australia: Berni Dymet stood on the balcony of the...
“Our greatest regrets at the end of our lives will be the opportunities we left on the table, the passions we didn’t pursue and the dreams we didn’t go after.” Mark Batterson Anna Mary Robinson, also...
