Stories For Speakers And Writers

The narrator (called the White Tiger) concludes his book in this way: “Now despite my amazing success story, I don’t want to lose contact wi...

Roy Petitfils , an author, speaker and counselor in the USA, passed on this story: Detroit, a living monument to cars, this summer celebrate...

Martin Luther King, Jnr. said that people usually need to see a conviction in order to understand and follow, when he stated: “People are o...

The movie The Big Kahuna touches on questions about faith, work and integrity. Based on a play called The Hospitality Suite , written by Ro...

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” “Broad, wholesome, ...

Valerie Jarrett is one of Barack Obama’s closest advisors and longtime friends. By Obama’s side during the rough and tumble campaign, she is...

I have gone through the archives of Stories for Speakers and Writers and picked out any stories that I think could be useful for reflection...

Author Patricia Livingston reflects on a Christmas play: The Christmas Eve Service was supposed to start at 7.30pm and it was now 7.40pm and...

Richard A Smith shares this story after spending a memorable evening with legendary filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola: Francis Ford Coppola st...

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes … and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outsid...

Late Wednesday night, Mumbai, India found itself the target of a ferocious terrorist attack, and the situation remains unresolved even now, ...

This is one of the many stories told by the master storyteller, F W Boreham, that are posted on The Official F W Boreham Blog Site : The nov...

Recombobulation Area After travelers go through the security scanners at Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport they are greeted with a ...

In writing about the need to walk in another person’s shoes, Barack Obama makes this statement: I am obligated to try to see the world throu...

New York Times reports (23 November 2008): A farm couple received a big surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to take...

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) for more than 50 years was known as the Apostle of Positive Thinking. His books have sold into the million...

There were many times when Alistair Cooke did not feel like writing one of his almost 3,000 Letters from America over his marathon 58 years...

This sign (pictured) stands at ‘the corner of Forth and Walnut Streets in Louisville’ as a reminder of the insight that Thomas Merton had on...

Most Googled Statement This quotation from Frederick Buechner (pictured) is the most Googled statement in my online book, Making Life Decisi...

Dr F W Boreham shares a story about his mentor J J Doke moving from New Zealand to South Africa and collaborating with Mahatma Gandhi: After...

In instructing us as to the best way of catching bream, [Izaak Walton] says that, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, we must repair...

Former US Foreign Service Officer to the Middle East, John Burgess, shares this story: Back in the early 1960s, when I was getting my first ...

Stories for Thanksgiving Stories of gratitude in Geoff Pound’s new e-Book, Talk about Thanksgiving . Follow this link for information. John ...

A big part of Alistair Cooke’s skill and popularity as a writer was because he had a clear idea of who he was and what was his job. When Coo...

The Science Correspondent for The Guardian reports: “The rousing, patriotic sweep of Elgar's Nimrod, the mournful tones of Nessun Dorma...