Open Thread-A Tribute to John Lennon

May he Rest in Peace...

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
William Carleton