Love Unlimited Freda Bright says: Only in opera do people die of love. It's true. You really can't love somebody to death. I've known people to die from no love, but I've never known anyone to be loved to death. We just can't love one another enough....
Top Six Ways to Build a Wonderful Life 1. Live Below Your Means There will always be temptation to forsake the future for immediate gratification. We all want to buy that new piece of technology, treat ourselves to an expensive night on the town, or...
Dads Mandolin My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string instrument players in our town. He could not read music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it. When he was younger, he was a member of a small co...
A Beautiful Memory Er...the loveliest house that I've ever lived in was one that I lived in with my grandparents when I was a child. And the name of the house was Crosslands. And I have some very happy memories of Crosslands. It was, it seemed, so hu...
Chemist Leo Baekeland In the opening scene of The Graduate, Benjamin (played by a young Dustin Hoffman) is awkwardly working an affluent Southern California crowd at a graduation party arranged for him by his parents when a family friend offers one o...
Whatever Love Means Although neither of them remembered the occasion, Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby. It happened during the winter of 1961, when twelve-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, was visiting his mother's Sandrin...
The Props to Help Man Endure I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work, a lifes work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit. Not for glory and least of all, for profit, but to create out of the material of the human spiri...
Magic Mumat Harvard University President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates. The first thing I would like to say is thank you. Not only has Harvard gi...
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It's the...
On His Seventieth Birthday Of late years the public have been trying to tackle me in every way they possibly can, and failing to make anything of it they have turned to treating me as a great man. This is a dreadful fate to overtake anybody. There ha...
Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish born composer and renowned pianist, was the creator of 55 mazurkas, 13 polonaises, 24 preludes, 27 etudes, 19 nocturnes, 4 ballads, and 4 scherzos. Frederic Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland, on February 22, 18...
Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that ch...
Psychoanalyst---Sigmund Freud There are no neutrals in the Freud wars. Admiration, on one side; skepticism, on the other. But on one thing the contending parties agree: for good or ill, Sigmund Freud, more than any other explorer of the psyche, has s...
Aeschylus：The Father of Greek Tragedy Aeschylus was the first known dramatist to use morethan one character in his plays, and he thereforeinvented the concept of dialogue betweencharacters. Before Aeschylus, plays consisted of oneprotagonist and we...
Benjamin Franklin Franklin's life is full of charming stories which all young men should know how he peddled ballads in Boston, and stood, the guest of kings in Europe; how he worked his passage as a stowaway to Philadelphia, and rode in the queen's...
