In Calaveras, California, there lived a man whose name was Jim Smiley. Jim enjoyed betting so much that he would bet on anything. If anyone said good morning to him, he would bet t...

An angel wrote: Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use y...

As a teenager, I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious outside, but I wanted to be liked inside. Once I left home to hitch-hike2 to California with my friend Pen...

If you put a buzzard in a pen six to eight feet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a bu...

John and Bobby joined a wholesale company together just after graduation from college the same year. Both worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to...

The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one w...

  I am Mike, a Chinese boy. I have a plan about next weekend. First I am going to read magazine on Saturday morning. It’s my favorite. And then I will go to the zoo with my ...

  A farmer took on firewood by tramping over mountains and through ravines every day, In order to get a day‘s rations and let his son goes to school with the remaining money....

Along the coast of the vast Atlantic Ocean there lived an old man. Each day when the tide went out he would make his way along the beach for miles. Another man who lived not far aw...

Once upon a time, there was a boy called Narcissus. He was the son of a god and he was very, very handsome. Many women fell in love with him, but he turned them away. One of the wo...