"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings." — Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, born 1821
"The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance." — Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, born 1821
"When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts." — Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, born 1821
"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time." — Marian Wright Edelman, American activist, born 1939
"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree." — Marian Wright Edelman, American activist, born 1939
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." — Thomas Edison, American inventor, born 1847
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas Edison, American inventor, born 1847
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him or to him." — Thomas Edison, American inventor, born 1847
"One feels that things are about to change. I have felt this all my life. It is a readiness that robs every act of meaning, making every situation obsolete, putting the present into the past." — Russell Edson, American poet, born 1935
"She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart." — Russell Edson, American poet, born 1935
"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater." — Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, born 1879
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." — Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, born 1879