Notes

Part I

1 By the Beating of Our Own Wings

1. Dante Alighieri, The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition, trans. Robert Pinsky (New York: Macmillan, 1997).

2. From “The Choice Is Mine,” attributed to Alexander Starr, in Arnetha F. Ball and Ted Lardner, African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroom (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005), 95.

2 Focus on What You Can Do

1. Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886).

3 Can’t vs. Can

1. Brian Tracy, No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline (New York: Vanguard Press, 2010), 3.

2. Richard Langworth, ed., Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008).

4 The Leningrad Symphony

1. Anna Reid, “The Leningrad Symphony,” in Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941–1944 (New York: Walker & Co., 2011), 362.

2. Ed Vulliamy, “Orchestral maneouvres (part two),” Observer, http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/nov/25/features.magazine57 (accessed August 4, 2014).

3. Ibid.

4. Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina, “Memoirs and Oral Histories,” in Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women’s Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), 151.

5 Transforming a Curse into a Blessing

1. M. Scott Peck, “Grace and Mental Illness: The Myth of Orestes,” in The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978), 293–94.

2. C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (New York: Macmillan, 2001, orig. pub. 1946).

Part II

A Guide for Past Mistakes

1. Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Bath, England: Windsor, 2004).

A Guide for Physical Limitations

1. “Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivered an Assembly Series Address at Washington University in 1957,” Washington University in St. Louis, Assembly Series, http://assemblyseries.wustl.edu/past/MLK.html.

2. Glenn Cunningham and George X. Sand, “I Will Walk Again,” in Never Quit (Lincoln, VA: Chosen Books, 1981), 46–47.

3. Cunningham and Sand, “Dedication,” in Never Quit, i.

4. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward (New York: John Day Co.,1933).

5. U.S. National Park Service, “Quotations,” Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, http://www.nps.gov/frde/photosmultimedia/quotations.htm (accessed July 17, 2014).

A Guide for Educational Limitations

1. Helen Keller, address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

A Guide for Mental and Emotional Struggles

1. “Winston Churchill and His ‘Black Dog’ That Helped Win World War II,” National Alliance on Mental Illness, http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Not_Alone/Winston_Churchill.htm (accessed May 2, 2014).

2. Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches (New York: Hyperion, 2003).

3. Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941, quoted in Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations, ed. Richard M. Langworth (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008), 23.

Liberation

1. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Complete Short Stories (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1959).

2. C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1942).

3. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (New York: Popular Pub., 2001).

4. “Pay it forward,” Wikipedia, last modified August 26, 2014, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward.

5. Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn’t for You: A Selfish Person’s Guide to Being Selfless (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014), 39.