On June 18, 1815, the Duke of Wellington led his armies against Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Waterloo. In those days, updates from the battlefield reached England via powerful spotlights relayed on ships across…

The famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright built a house for industrialist Hibbard Johnson in 1937. One rainy evening, Johnson was entertaining distinguished guests when the roof began to leak…

A ministers’ association and a sales convention were both holding events in the same hotel. The catering department was working furiously to serve dinners to both large groups. The salesmen were supposed to have spiked…

The world-famous tenor Luciano Pavarotti learned early what commitment was all about. He relates, “When I was a boy, my father introduced me to the wonders of song. He urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. A professional tenor in my hometown took me as a pupil. I also enrolled in a teachers college. On graduating, I asked my father, ‘Shall I be a teacher or a singer?’…

There is a tale told of the great English stage actor, William Macready. One day, an eminent preacher asked him…

Celestine Sibley, a columnist for The Atlanta Constitution, once took her three children to a diner for breakfast. It was crowded, so they had to take separate seats along the counter. Her eight-year-old daughter was seated at the far end of the counter. When her food was served, she called down to her mother in a loud voice, “Mother, don’t people say grace in this place?”…

A story is told about Fiorello La Guardia when he was a judge before becoming mayor of New York. In the height of the Great Depression, a woman came into his courtroom who had been arrested for stealing a loaf of bread…

In an article in The Kansas City Times, Robert Fulghum wrote, “Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.”…

The boys of a junior high school were organizing a basketball team. All of them wanted to be the captain and the argument became heated…