A Straight Wall Is Hard to Build By Lou R. Crandall As I try to outline my thoughts, the subject becomes more and more difficult. I have many basic beliefs, but as I try to pick and choose, it seems to me that they can all be summarized in the word c...
A Game of Cards By Norman Cousins Ever since I was old enough to read books on philosophy, I have been intrigued by the discussions on the nature of man. The philosophers have been debating for years about whether man is primarily good or primarily e...
Causes Are People By Susan Parker Cobbs It has not been easy for me to meet this assignment. We have so many changing and transitory beliefs besides the ones most central to our lives. I hope that what I say wont sound either too simple or too pious....
Keep the Innocent Eye By Sir Hugh Casson When I Accepted the invitation to join in This I Believe, it was not-goodness knows-because I felt I had anything profound to contribute. I regarded it-selfishly, perhaps-as a chance to get my own ideas straig...
Dreams Are the Stuff Life Is Made Of By Carroll Carroll I believe I am a very lucky man. My entire life has been lived in the healthy area between too little and too much. Ive never experienced financial or emotional insecurity, but everything I have...
Flotsam, Jetsam, and Liberty By James Carey Perhaps more than anything else in the world, I believe in liberty: liberty for myself, liberty for my fellow men. I cannot forget the legend engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty on Bedlows Island...
A Ball to Roll Around By Robert Allman I lost my sight when I was 4 years old by falling off a boxcar in a freight yard in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and landing on my head. Now, I am 32. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what col...
How to Give Your Money Away By Dr. Samuel Best Many years ago I met a man whose unique psychology helped me to shed a life of struggle and uneasiness for great happiness, for peace of mind, and for a measure of success I otherwise would not have atta...
About Secrets and Falling Tiles By Carroll Binder We are all at the mercy of a falling tile, Julius Caesar reminds us in Thornton Wilders Ides of March. None of us knows at what hour something we may love may suffer some terrible blow by a force we c...
What Are People Good For? By Ina Corinne Brown One's beliefs are revealed not so much in words or in formal creeds as in the assumptions on which one habitually acts and in the basic values by which all choices are tested. The cornerstone of my own v...
