WHAT PRICE MONEY? Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high a price for it. Bits & Pieces, October, 1988.
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NO SEARCHING We were leaving a football game in a throng of people, and my husband, who never displays affection in public, took my hand. I was delighted. As we walked hand in hand out…
THE THRILL IS GONE About two weeks before our fifth anniversary, my husband asked me what I would like for a gift. I told him I wanted something impractical and romantic. On our anniversary night,…
BEING SINGLED OUT Sir William Osler, visiting one of London's leading children's hospitals, noticed that in a convalescent ward all the children were clustered at one end of the room dressing their dolls, playing games…
THE REALM OF SILENCE "Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10) Silence reveals itself in a thousand expressible forms; in the quiet of dawn, in the noiseless aspiration of the trees toward…
WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS While teaching in Malaysia with the Peace Corps, I was invited to spend a week with a student and his family. We bathed each morning in the river, and one time…
ARE YOU SURE? A teacher was having trouble with his bank. Neither the bank's accuracy nor its mode of expression lived up to his standards. The last straw arrived in the form of a letter…
ATTITUDE Literary agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar pushes himself hard. Now 81, he still puts together multimillion-dollar deals while commuting between Beverly Hills and the rest of the world, and giving lavish parties. "Each morning, I…
GREAT VISION Hindsight is an exact science. Guy Bellamy, The Sinner's Congregation
THE MONK AND THE WOMAN Two Buddhist monks, on their way to the monastery, found an exceedingly beautiful woman at the river bank. Like them, she wished to cross the river, but the water was…
THOUGHTS ON ENJOYING COMMUNION Today, we kept communion at my church. I enjoyed it. Is that heresy? The robed pastors prayed. Grave elders carried out the holy trays To solemn people all wrapped in solemn…
A RIGHT NICE TRIBUTE Then there's the story of the uninformed protestant who happened to be visiting Rome on a day when the Pope was holding an audience at the Vatican. Throngs of people were…
SUCCESS Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purpose; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations. The most glowing successes are but reflection of an inner fire. Kenneth Hildebrand
ATTITUDE TOWARD LIFE Live in the active voice, rather than in the passive. Think more about what you make happen than what is happening to you. William De Witt Hyde
LEADERSHIP I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. Talleyrand
MORE IMPACT The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks most deeply and draws more blood. Mays Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (Vintage).
SECRET KNOWLEDGE The knowledge that a secret exists is half of the secret. Louis L'Amour, Ride the River (Bantam).
NATURE'S WISDOM Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother (Crown).
DON'T TAKE IT LIGHTLY Dorothy Parker once reviewed a book and said, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." Bits & Pieces
FOOL'S MONEY How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?
