The Tide detergent company wanted to circumvent the language barrier by utilizing picture-only billboards (ads) in a number of countries. The premise of these images was simple: In the first frame, a frowning woman holds up a dirty shirt. The second frame shows her placing this shirt into a…

One afternoon, a wealthy businessman was riding in the back of his custom limousine when he saw two men eating grass by the roadside. He ordered his driver to stop and then got out to investigate. The rich man asked one of the men, “Why are you eating grass?”…

Alfred Nobel got the chance to read his own death notice, and he didn’t like what he saw.
Alfred Nobel was a very wealthy and successful man. He had become an expert in chemistry and invented three of the most commonly used explosives in the world – dynamite, gelignite (used…

A man came to Junnaid, a Sufi mystic, and asked him, ”What do you say about pre-determination, kismet, fate, and the freedom of man? Is man free to do whatever he wants to do? Or is he simply a puppet in the hands of an unknown puppeteer, who simply…

Columbus was once invited to a banquet, where he was assigned the most honorable place at the table. A shallow courtier who was meanly jealous of him asked abruptly: “Had you not discovered Indies, are there not other men in Spain who could have been capable of that enterprise?…