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...

A father was worried about his son, who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk to train his boy. The Buddhist monk said t...

It‘s a fine sunny day in the forest, and a rabbit is sitting outside his burrow, tippy-tapping on his typewriter. Along comes a fox, out for a walk. Fox: 'What are you working on?...

A businessman walked into a New York City bank and asked for the loan officer. He said he was going to Europe on business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000. The loan office...

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...

A little boy asked his mother: “Why are you crying?” “Because I am a woman.” She told him. “I don’t understand” he said. His mum just hugged him and said: “And you never wi...

A certain good woman one day said something that hurt her best friend of many years. She regretted immediately and would have done anything to have taken the words back . What she ...

One morning a small boy squatted motionless on the grass in the garden for a long time. His mother felt so odd that she walked close to see what had happened. The boy, in earnest, ...

  Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years. Following her longstanding custom, she‘d lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then...

     A devoted husband is keeping his wife‘s fading memory alive by reading from the diary he has kept for more than 70 years of their marriage. Jack Potter, ...