The Thread of Permanence By William Zorach It is strange how certain things make a great impression on us in childhood. I remember these verses by Longfellow: Life is real! Life is earnest! And the graves is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust retur...
Walk Clean Around the Hill By Darryl F. Zanuck Now that I can look back across the years, from the so-called vantage point of experience and two world wars, extensive travel and contact with many outstanding personalities, it gives me a great deal of...
A New Look from Borrowed Time By Ralph Richmond Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. Yes, he said, there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case I listened, stunned, as he contin...
The Hidden World Around Us By Harry Overstreet Ever since Socrates was introduced to my adolescent mind he has been one chief master of my thinking. What he believed still seems to me to be indispensable for carrying on an intelligent and responsible...
Revelations on a Bomb Run By Lloyd Jordan One day while piloting a bomber through the war skies of Europe, I came to believe in the immortality of man. There was not any melodrama attached to this awakening. Only through the thousand details of a min...
Discovery in a Thunderstorm By Dr. Nelson Glueck Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through some exceedingly picturesque countryside. Suddenly, dark clouds piled up overhead and rain began to fall, but strange to relate, several hundred yards ahe...
A Lesson Learned at Midnight By James Q. DuPont Ever since one midnight, in nineteen hundred and nine, when I first heard my mother crying, I have been groping for beliefs to help me through the rough going and confusions of life. My dads voice was l...
In order to tell what I believe, I must briefly sketch something of my personal history. The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sympathetic, and sharing my love of mus...
Roll Away the Stone I enjoy life because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth. My interest leads me to widen my knowledge of people, and this in turn compels me to believe in the common goodness of mankind. I believe that the normal...
Growth That Starts From Thinking It seems to me a very difficult thing to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life. I think I was fortunate because I grew up in a family where there was a very deep religious feeling....