Les Brown and his twin brother were adopted by Mamie Brown, a kitchen worker and maid, shortly after their birth in a poverty-stricken Miami neighborhood....

Steve, a twelve-year-old boy with alcoholic parents, was about to be lost forever, by the U.S. education system. Remarkably, he could read, yet, in spite of his reading skills, Steve was failing....

If I could catch a rainbowI would do it just for youAnd share with its beautyOn the days you’re feeling blue.If I could build a mountainYou could call your very ownA place to find serenityA place to be alone....

A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and lay around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow......

Fair Daffodils, we weep to seeYou haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising SunHas not attained his Noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting dayHas runBut to the Even-song; And, having prayed together, weWill go with you...

I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals ... they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long....

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.It doesn’t interest me how old you are....

One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing....