When I was a new teacher in China, every day I taught English to my students and they taught me about China. One day the topic turned to saying: 'I love you.' I was shocked to lear...

    Never ever had he been so thirsty for a look at the world outside the window like now. The disease befell so furiously that he could not be spared and was arranged ...

Our tolerating ability is indeed way beyond our imagination. But not until the very critical moment will we realize our potential tolerating ability.   There was a woman in th...

  Pirates Treasure 'Ten steps from the porch（门廊） and twenty steps from the rose bushes,' growled Bluebeard in Jimmy‘s dream one night. 'There be treasure there! .' So th...

The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.   "Why are you in college at such a young age?" I asked later. She jokingly replied, &q...

In the remote southern seas there is a cluster of islands. The weather is fair, the land is fertile and the ocean is rich with fish. Each island is inhabited by a different race of...

One day a rich father took his young son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and night in the farm of a very poor fa...

I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant. We sat...

  A little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. He had with him his box of cars and trucks , his plastic pail , and a shiny , red plastic shovel. In ...

  A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked ...