Halle Barry Says Beauty Is Meaningless

Interviewed for the opening of her film Catwoman, actress Halle Barry, one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People, commented on physical beauty. ...

Happy Marriages Don't Guarantee Fidelity

New research has uncovered truths about adultery that are unnerving—and none more so than the link between "happy marriages" and affairs. ...

"War and Peace": Knowing Right and Doing Wrong

War and Peace is based on Leo Tolstoy's classic novel. With the backdrop of Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia in the early 1800s, a variety ...

James Thurber on Lessons to Learn Before Dying

Humorist James Thurber wrote:

"All human beings should try to learn, before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."

Max Lucado Sets Off Burglar Alarm

Max Lucado writes in Back Door:

I rolled out of bed early…, real early. I'd been on vacation for a couple of weeks, and I was rested. My energy level ...

Loving People of Every Race

Author Ruth Senter writes:

Life sometimes has a way of showing us ourselves more clearly. September 11th, 2001 was such a time for me.

On Monday, my husband ...

9/11 Pentagon Survivor on Her Purpose

Betty Maxfield, who survived the 9/11 tragedy at the Pentagon, said, "I should've been dead. I was, for some reason, saved. My question now is, ...

Seeing, or Just Looking?

Andras Tamas is the name officials gave a certain man decades ago in a Russian psychiatric hospital. He'd been drafted into the army, but the authorities ...

Catch-22 of Incompetence

Most incompetent people don't know they are incompetent. In fact, researcher Dr. David A. Dunning of Cornell University reports that people who are ...

Self-Examination Is the Beginning of Wisdom

It is the beginning of wisdom to look within ourselves and search our own omissions and want of humanity.