Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another? Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh.
Former President of the University of Notre Dame University. Held 16 presidential appointments and served as President of Notre Dame for 35 years. Ninety Something.

Each time you laugh, it massages your heart and you become 10 years younger. Dr. Qiu Zufa.
Chinese doctor. Suffered through two of the worst nightmares of the 20th century: first as an Asian foreigner in Munich during World War II and second as an intellectual in China during the 1970’s Cultural Revolution. Ninety Something.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. Rosa Parks.
Social Activist. In 1955, her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus became a pivotal point in the battle to bring racial equality to America. (1913 - 2005)

I kept silent about my past because it was just a common soldier's duty.Long Qiming.
Former World War II Flying Tiger pilot. One of the half dozen Chinese who joined the 200 hundred American pilots fighting the Japanese in China. Later suffered during the idiocy of Mao's Culture Revolution. Eighty Something.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try. Peter F. Drucker.
Management Guru. Most likely, the most influential management sage of the 20th century (1909 - 2005).

I am not a hater. Simon Wiesenthal.
Nazi Hunter, who with dedication and perseverance, has sought justice and who is determined to remind others of human cruelty (1908 - 2005)