Quotes from authors born on Apr 5th
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington
Lysander Spooner 
Chan Ho Park 
Nelson Algren 
William Harvey 
Marguerite Yourcenar 
Sandra Day O'Connor 
Don Knotts 
Al Lopez