A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apple he grew. One day, his friend gave the farmer a young apple tree and told him to take it home and plant it. The far...

One day a father was teaching his son and said, 'The keys to your success are keeping your word and cleverness. Once you give somebody a promise, you must carry it out on matter wh...

  New York city: It‘s a cold day in December. A little boy about 10-year-old was standing in front of a shoe store on Broadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and s...

Alow yourself to be happy and proud of your progress Too often we are hard on ourselves and feel bad about our lack of progress. We feel guilty that we’ve missed a couple of worko...

I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live with the family, preferring her t...

One cold night the king called Nasreddin to him and said, 'If you‘re able to spend this night in the courtyard with only your shirt on, I will give you one hundred gold coins!' In...

If it is you, would you willing to give up? It all began with a stop at a red light. Kevin Salwen, a writer and entrepreneur in Atlanta, was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Han...

  A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer‘s showroom, and knowing his father could well affo...

  Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided togo for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house。 In a hurry to dive into the cool wat...

  Married people are twice as likely to become obese than their single counterparts, scientists claim. Greek researchers found that married couples were more likely to becom...