“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.” Henry W. Longfellow March 26, 1969 – New Orleans, Louisiana: Ken Toole, a 31-year-old English professor,...
“One must from time-to-time attempt things that are beyond one’s capacity.” Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1874 – Overheard in a Paris art studio: “He has no talent at all, that boy! You who are his friend, please...
“They gave their all for this country. They deserve a memorial. 58,318 names are etched in the black granite; more than 40,000 soldiers were age 22 or younger; 33,103 were 18 years old; 244 soldiers received the Medal of Honor, the country’s highest military...
“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams.” John Barrymore 1927 – Harvard University – Cambridge, Massachusetts: Norman Vaughn read the headlines of the Boston newspaper, “Byrd to the South Pole.” Although the 22-year-old Harvard student was...
“I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail, I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult… I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any...
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. My advice to other disabled people would be concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with....
