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Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a life.

94 percent of Americans think it should be illegal to text while driving. The National Safety Council estimates that 213,000 car crashes in a single year involved drivers who were texting. This number continues to increase. As almost all of us believe it should be illegal, many of the crashes must be…

Faithfulness is not gained in a day but is achieved by right decisions day by day. There once was a little village named Le Chambon in France, a town whose people, unlike others in France, hid their Jews from the Nazis. An author was writing a story on the town and visited it, wondering what sort of…

My friend Shirley had written her last Christmas card and wearily moved on to writing checks to the phone company, the electric company, and a department store. After the holidays, the extent of her pre-Christmas exhaustion became apparent when the bank returned one of her checks with an “incorrect signature”…

We live in the ultimate quick-fix culture. Everyone wants to be thin, but few people eat healthy and exercise. Everyone wants financial stability, but many refuse to be bothered by a budget. Rather than trouble ourselves with discipline, we opt for diet fads or speculate in the stock market. When we…

It is said that during a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, when the Shema prayer was said, half the congregants stood up and half remained sitting. The half that was seated started yelling at those standing to sit down, and the ones standing yelled at the ones sitting to stand up. The rabbi,…

In his book Teaching the Elephant to Dance, James Belasco describes how trainers shackle young elephants with heavy chains to deeply embedded stakes. In that way the elephant learns to stay in its place. Older, powerful elephants never try to leave—even though they have the strength to pull the stake…

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home." "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." "Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries." "Human beings…