“Success is just happiness. When you are happy, that is success.”~Jimmy Fallon American comedian, television host, actor, singer, writer, and producer Jimmy Fallon was born on this day in 1974.
“Success is just happiness. When you are happy, that is success.”~Jimmy Fallon American comedian, television host, actor, singer, writer, and producer Jimmy Fallon was born on this day in 1974.
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.”~Joseph Story American lawyer, jurist, politician, and US Supreme Court Justice … Continue reading Random Quote for September 18, 2025
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.”~Edgar Mitchell United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist, and NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell was … Continue reading Random Quote for September 17, 2025
“People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.”~Henry Louis Gates American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates was born … Continue reading Random Quote for September 16, 2025
“A government is for the benefit of all the people.”~William Howard Taft Twenty-seventh President of the United States (1909 to 1913) and tenth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1921 to 1930) William Howard Taft was born on this day in 1857.
“Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.”~Arthur Henderson British iron moulder, Labour politician, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Arthur Henderson was born on this day in 1863.
“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”~D. H. Lawrence English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter D. H. Lawrence was born on this day in 1885.
“There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.”~Cyril Connolly English literary critic and writer Cyril Connolly was born on this day in 1903.
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”~Leo Tolstoy Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was born on this day in 1828.
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