Mahatma Gandhi Lists the "Seven Blunders of the World"

Mahatma Gandhi Lists the "Seven Blunders of the World":

1. Wealth without work

2. Pleasure without conscience

3. Knowledge without character

4. ...

Sir Edmund Hillary Overcomes Mount Everest

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you. Sir Edmund Hillary made several unsuccessful attempts at scaling Mount Everest ...

Directions Take Climbers over Cliff

Trail magazine is one of the most widely distributed climbing magazines.

The February 2004 issue provided directions for climbers descending Britain's ...

Japan Searches for Atonement

In two full pages of advertisement, the Japanese government declared its desire to right wrongs committed in World War II. The Asian Women's Fund, ...

Church Learns Not to Lock Out Their Community

I grieved when our church began chaining our parking lot to keep out the cars of parents who were dropping children off at the adjacent school. The school's ...

People Learn Money Management from Mistakes

When people were asked which of the following taught them the most about personal money management, they said:

Mistakes: 64 percent School: 31 percent ...

God Turns Dobson's Failure into Success

Concerned about the disintegration of the home and the increased divorce rate, James Dobson, at the time a little-known psychologist of a southern California ...

Wrong Way Regals: Instinct without Direction

Roy Regals was a center for the University of California in 1929 when they went up against Georgia Tech at the Rose Bowl. The game was scoreless when ...

Newspaper Admits Errors

One of England's major newspapers, The Guardian, carries a daily confessional column called "Corrections and Amplifications." Edited by ...

Regrets: Pig on a Plane

A pig recently traveled on a six-hour US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Seattle, and he didn't ride coach.

Two passengers convinced the airline ...