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• Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
  -- Benjamin E. Mays (1895-1984) U.S. educator, clergyma...
• We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us.
  We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors....
• The difference between a misfortune and a calamity?
  If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune....
• The difference between a misfortune and a calamity?
  If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune....
• Calamity is the test of integrity.
• Pride invites calamity; humility reaps its harvest.
• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....