Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) led a full life. He was a renown theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.  For Schweitzer, service to others was both a responsibility and a joy.  He undertook great feats of service as a medical doctor and missionary in Lambarene, Africa which brought him world […]

To My Magnificent Agent, Staff and Friends: In her popular novel, The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins crafted the following line: “And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”  Far too often we […]

To My Magnificent Agents, Staff, and Friends: “This above all: to thine own self be true,/And it must follow, as the night the day,/Thou cans’t not be false to any man ” – Shakespeare’s Hamlet (ll.78-80) According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was one of the […]

To My Magnificent Agents, Staff and Friends: I ran across this story while reading The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett. The story is titled “The Heedless Man at the Gates of Paradise”. Heedlessness is defined as carelessness; thoughtless; unmindful; inconsiderate; oblivious. How many of us are guilty of this, if not […]