"I felt the tug on my sleeve and looked down to find him standing motionless. His mouth was moving but I couldn’t make out his words. His quiet body in the noisy room caught me off guard. I bent down to find his voice."
"Tears-pouring-down-my-face, couldn't-talk-couldn't-breathe kind of laughing. Screaming laughing. So hard that I was sobbing because I couldn't get it together."
"I don’t know who this lady is... she waved at him and he made his way up to her. I thought their interaction would be the same as last time but I was wrong. "
It's hard to believe that the creator of the lovable Charlie Brown and the renowned "Peanuts" comic strip was ever anything less than an amazing creative guru. But like Walt Disney, Michael Jordan, and many of the "greats" we put on a pedestal, Schulz's success was born much more out of determination and refusing to accept failure than it was sheer talent.