Throughout the years many people have observed the close relationship between wisdom and work. Here are a few examples:
• When Pope John Paul XXIII was asked how many people work in the Vatican, he replied, “About half of them.”
• The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work—Robert Frost
• Some people [...]

The family is an interesting institution. Humorist Robert Orbin once said, “Who can ever forget Winston Churchill’s immortal words: ‘We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills.’ It sounds exactly like our family vacation.” [...]

In typical fashion, when George Allen moved to Washington, D.C., as head coach of the Redskins, he promised the nation’s capital the moon. He told them it would be just a few seasons before he would develop the Redskins into a championship football team. He promised them the Super Bowl by the end of his [...]

Last week The London Times reported that the late Pope John Paul II, who has been put on the fast track to sainthood by the Vatican, regularly whipped himself as an act of penance to feel closer to God. The Polish-born Pope performed self flagellation as a bishop in Krakow and continued to do so [...]

A few years ago I heard Garrison Keillor tell the story of Florien and Myrtle Crepsbox, an older couple from a small farming town in northern Minnesota. For the most part, Florien and Myrtle never ventured very far from home. That is why it was so surprising to hear that they were making a daytrip [...]

You may already be familiar with one of the most amazing stories of wisdom ever told. Two women brought an infant son to the king, each claiming to be the true mother. They both claimed that the other woman had suffocated her own son in the middle of the night by rolling on top of [...]

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On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco Examiner: “I don’t want my husband to die in the gas chamber for a crime he did not commit. I will therefore offer my services for 10 years as a cook, maid, or housekeeper to any leading attorney who will defend him and [...]

Here’s a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note, don’t worry, be happy.
In every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double,
Aint got no place to lay your head, somebody came and took your bed,
The landlord say your rent is late, he may have to [...]

We are living in a world filled with turmoil. Listen to this litany of headlines from this past week’s news: In international news the spotlight was on American college exchange student Amanda Knox. She and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty and sentenced to 26 years in prison for the murder of British [...]