Quotes from authors born on Oct 8th
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan
The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.
Paul Hogan
All my children inherited perfect pitch.
Chevy Chase
John Oates 
Heinz Fischer 
George J. Mitchell 
Paul Bert 
Gregg Easterbrook 
Richie Sambora 
Roy Clark 
John Krasinski