“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” George Trevelyan 1804 – Washington, D.C.: Thomas...
“If God gives you something you can do, why in God’s name wouldn’t you do it?” Stephen King 1972 – Hampden, Maine: Tabitha was emptying the wastebasket when she found Stephen’s three wadded-up typewritten...
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” Muhammad Rumi February 1956 – New Holland, Pennsylvania: It was a snowy afternoon in the small town – the location of the...
“You can’t change the past. You can only change the path you are on.” Ramona Pierson April 1984 – El Toro, California: Ramona Pierson took her dog for a run after work. As they jogged across an intersection a drunk driver, who sped through the light, hit them. The dog...
October 1970 – Gadsden, Alabama: Gordon Mote’s parents were determined that blindness would not keep him, or his brother Michael, also born blind, from having a normal childhood. At Thanksgiving when he was three, Gordon sat down at his grandmother’s piano and...
October 1988 – Walt Disney Studios – Los Angeles, California: While eating lunch at his desk, science fiction writer Thomas Disch, got an idea for an unusual animation movie. Why not adapt Shakespeare’s play Hamlet to be performed by lions in Africa. A contract writer...
