Children Pressured to Be Normal

For more than 30 years, Gordon Mackenzie worked at Hallmark, eventually convincing the company to create a special title for him: "creative paradox." ...

Sculptor Henry Moore on the Secret of Life

The famous English sculptor Henry Moore was asked a fascinating question by literary critic Donald Hall.

"Now that you are 80, you must know the secret ...

"Joe vs. the Volcano": Living in Amazement

"My father says almost the whole world's asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says only a few people are ...

Inspired by His Presence

President Theodore Roosevelt, a charismatic figure who made quite an impression on people. One journalist, William Allen White, wrote of his first meeting ...

The History of Truth

The example of noble deaths such as the Spartans and others hardly move us, for we do not see what good it is to us. But the example of the deaths of ...