Quotes from authors born in 1863
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana
Deval Patrick 
Joe Eszterhas 
Emily Carr 
George Herbert 
Jim Dale 
John Hart 
Jon Favreau 
Dontrelle Willis