“Would anyone but a crazy person do this? I am a prisoner of my dream.” Philippe Petit 1968 – Dentist office, Paris, France: The magazine article mesmerized 18-year-old Philippe. He tore the article out and stuffed it in his pocket. It was about the construction of...
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia November 2, 1937 – Sing Sing Prison – Ossining,...
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.” Mother Teresa August 6, 1945 – Hiroshima, Japan: The air raid sirens blared at 6 a.m. but Kiyoshi Tanimoto...
May 21, 1927 – Paris, France: Forty miles from Le Bourget Air Field, he began to see the flares. Less than 33 hours earlier, 500 people had watched the 25-year-old pilot take off from a muddy Roosevelt Field runway in New York. He hoped to become the first pilot to...
April 1943: Captain Jack Glover tried to have Desmond Doss discharged from his Army company. A Contentious Objector, Doss wasn’t like the other soldiers. He didn’t eat meat, refused to carry a rifle or work on Saturday, his Sabbath. And he prayed all the time. Fellow...
