Marjorie Baer used to joke about her retirement plans. She wasn't married and had no kids, but she didn't intend to be alone—she and all...
当拳王阿里点燃亚特兰大奥运会的火炬时，他知道自己并没有被帕金森症打败。一直照顾他的妻子朗尼·阿里说：谁能想到他是一个与病魔战斗的人呢？现在人们可以了解到他最真实的一面了。即使不开口讲话，他仍然拥有激励人心的力量。”Love doesn't stop when a p...
Mark Twain was a famous American writer. He wrote many stories and many of them were funny stories. These stories are still read by many people all ov...
Like a lot of college freshmen, Sean Belnick has a job. He works for a company that brings in more than $20 million dollars a year. But Belnick is not...
I started winning competitions. We still had very little money -- my father had to borrow $5,000 to pay for a trip to the International Young Pianists...
As a boy growing up in Shenyang, China, I practiced the piano six hours a day. I loved the instrument. My mother, Xiu-lan Zhou, taught me to read note...
Married by arrangement at 13, Gandhi went to London to study law when he was 18. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and for a while practiced law in B...
Benjamin Franklin is remembered as an inventor, author, statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. But all great people were kids once ...
Mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific writer (3,000 poems, 2,000 songs, 8 novels, 40 volumes of essays...
He became a great reader. He read every book and newspaper he could get hold of, and if he came across anything in his reading that he wished to remem...