Literature Review

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.  ~Charles R. Swindoll

... And they'll walk out to the bleachers, and sit in shirt-sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces. ~ from Field of Dreams, actor James Earl JonesCelebrating 2026's Opening Day of Baseball!

Do not wait for someone else to come and speak for you. It’s you who can change the world. ~ Malala YousafzaiCelebrating Women's History Month

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. ~Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

The deep roots never doubt Spring will come. ~ Marty RubinGoodbye, Winter. Welcome, Spring!

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. ~ Angelina Jolie

Happy St. Patrick's Day! New word for the day: Sláinte (pronounced slawn-cha) to a team that makes excellence look easy.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank

Fear of failure destroys creativity. ~ Robert Iger, CEO of Disney

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~ A. A. Milne

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. ~Viktor Frankl

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do! ~ Steve Jobs