In preparation for the celebration of Thanksgiving next week, I have been moved by its juxtaposition with this Friday’s remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. I was only twelve years old in 1963, but was still acutely aware of how that tragedy overshadowed our family’s and […]

At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 struck World Trade Center Tower One. Across the street at Tower Two, more than 2,700 employees of Morgan Stanley were told by building officials to stay calm and remain in the building. Rick Rescorla, the head of security at Morgan […]

The following children’s fable has its roots in Germany, but I discovered it in William Bennett’s book The Moral Compass. It is a wonderful reminder that those who are discontented in one place seldom find contentment in another. Ever so long ago, in the time when there were fairies, and people […]

The great Russian author Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “How good is it to remember one’s insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one’s abode, the earth, a little grain of sand in comparison with Sirius and others, and one’s life span […]