Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found away to fill a universal human need.

    It was a need that he first 1 back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrensburg. To get an 2, he was struggling against many difficulties. His family was poor. His Dad couldn't afford the3 at college, so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to attend classes. Study had to be done 4 his farm-work routines. He withdrew from many school activities5he didn't have the time or the 6. He had only one good suit. He tried 7 the football team, but the coach turned him down for being too8 . During this period Dale was slowly 9 an inferiority complex (自卑感), which his mother knew could 10 him from achieving his real potential. She 11that Dale join the debating team, believing that12 in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.

    Dale took his mother's advice, tried desperately and after several attempts 13 made it. This proved to be a14 point in his life. Speaking before groups did help him gain the15 he needed. By the time Dale was a senior, he had won every top honor in 16. Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they, 17, were winning contests.

    Out of this early struggle to 18 his feelings of inferiority, Dale came to understand that the ability to 19 an idea to an audience builds a person's confidence. And, 20 it, Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do—and so could others.

    Krystal was ten when her parents divorced (离婚). By the time she was 12, her mother 1 and they lived in Cloverport, Kentucky. Danny, her new stepfather (继父), drove a truck. When he was home, he tried 2 to be friends. But teenage Krystal was like ice. “The divorce really made me 3. I was heartbroken.

    In the summer of 1984, Danny stopped at a Texas rest stop around midnight when he 4 a purple tour bus. The printed name “Prince” caught his eye. He'd heard of this Prince and knew Krystal and her friends 5his songs. He knocked on the bus door. Prince himself stepped down the stairs. “My stepdaughter likes your 6. Can I ask you for your autograph?”

With no 7 on hand, Prince reached for the purple bandanna (头巾) on his head and 8 it. Danny called Krystal's mom 9. “Krystal likes Prince, right?” “Of course, Danny. She'll love it.” Mom hung up the phone and10Krystal. Then Krystal told all 13 people in her class 11. By the time Danny pulled up to the house a few days later, the entire population of Cloverport 12 the purple bandanna that was making its way to Krystal.

    But no one knew what had13 after Danny hung up the phone. After 14 Prince, he'd been walking back to his truck when another trucker 15 him. “Hey, man, my son is a huge fan. Are you willing to make a16?”

    Arriving home in Cloverport that summer day, his hands behind his back, Danny stepped out of his truck. “I hope I made the 17decision.” Danny said. “I know you like Prince, 18I thought you'd like a Walkman (随身听) more.” When her stepfather presented his offer of 19, Krystal was moved to tears.

    “From then on, I grew to love him not only as a father but as a friend. All he ever wanted was to make me 20,” said Krystal.

    It's a Friday morning in Boston, which1Dr. Jim O'Connell is making his rounds. He might be more2inside an exam room, but that's not where his patients are. Dr. Jim O'Connell is one of a handful of physicians making house calls to the3in the city.

    More than 550, 000 Americans are homeless, and many have health problems but no4to cure. O'Connell and his team are doing something about it. On a daily routine, they5about 700 regular patients. "I feel like I'm a country doctor in the middle of the city." he said.

    O'Connell began to do this 33 years6, when he was at Harvard Medical School and was7to be a one-year position as the founding physician of a new health-care program for Boston's homeless. That turned into a 33-year8at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, one of the country's largest of its kind. O'Connell9about everything, from stitches (缝补)for an arm to surgery for the soul. If patients can't be treated on the street, he finds them a treatment bed at the respite facility(休息治疗区), a place for patients10are too sick to be on the streets11not ill enough for a hospital stay.

    "12I had been taught to do—go fast, be efficient—was13when you take care of homeless people." When you see somebody outside, you get them a cup of coffee and sit with them. Sometimes it14six months or a year of offering a sandwich or a cup of coffee before someone would start to talk to me. But15they engage(参与), they'll come to you any time because of16you. When asked about how his life might have17, if he had become a highly paid physician, O'Connell said, "I18think about it anymore."

    Some things are far more valuable than money. Just ask Dr. Jim O'Connell who19 everything from patients who have nothing20to give.

    Hailey is an ordinary nine-year-old girl, but her kindness is rather uncommon and awe-inspiring(令人惊叹的). The little girl has made it her task to help the 1 in her community by giving them a place to 2. While most other kids of her age are 3playing with toys, Hailey picks up 4 to build tiny shelters for people living on the streets.

    Hailey's kind spirits 5 four years ago, when she and her mother bought a homeless man a sandwich. She 6 that she wanted to do more in terms of providing 7 for the homeless. So she came up with the idea of starting a 8 to grow and donate fresh vegetables.

    "I was 9 that it would last a week," Hailey's mother told non-profit Together Rising. But it's been four years and she 10delivers food to the homeless constantly. " With her mother's help, Hailey 11 a grant(拨款) from Together Rising 12 she was awarded $ 3,000 to help her get started. "We can't think of a better 13 than our Hailey. She's proof that no person or act of kindness is too 14 to change the world," said Glennon Doyle Melton, founder of Together Rising.

    The wooden homes that Hailey is building will 15 a front door, windows and solar panels.

    16 , she does most of the work herself, under the guidance of her grandfather, who is a(n) 17. She is currently halfway through her first home, which she 18 to give to Edward, the homeless man who inspired her 19. Once she's done, Halley said she wants to 20building more sleeping shelters in Bremerton's Tent City.

    A businessman was deep in debt and could see no way out. He sat on the park chair, with 1 in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from 2.

    Suddenly an old man appeared before him and was willing to 3 him help. He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "4 me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time." Then he turned and disappeared as 5 as he had come.

    The businessman saw a check for $500, 000 in his hand, which was 6 by John D. Rockefeller, one of the 7 men in the world! "I can remove my money worries 8!" he realized. But the man decided to put the check in his safe, 9 it might give him the strength to find out a way to save his business. With a renewed 10 attitude, he thought of some new business ideas which soon led to his success in several big 11. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making 12 once again.

    Exactly one year 13, he returned to the park with the check. At the time they have agreed on, the old man 14, too. But just as the man was about to hand back the check and share his 15 story, a nurse came running up and 16 the old man. She said the old man was always 17 from the rest room and telling people he was John D. Rockefeller. Then she led the old man away 18 the arm hurriedly.

    The man just stood there, 19. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money 20 his self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.

    Although my good job at a large company had made my parents happy, knew I wanted something different. The only place I could1working was Facebook, I2from New York to San Francisco and3at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto,4to find a job in Facebook

    A friend who worked there had agreed to5me to a few people around the office. But on the way back from a coffee break, I got 6. I 7 around outside the Facebook building by myself, trying to8myself that I was able enough to work here. I told myself I had already flown across the9 and now I just needed to go for it.

    I sat in the hall of the building for what10hours. Finally, at the very end of the day, the director of PR walked out and introduced herself .An hour later, I left the Facebook office even more11about the company.

    A few days later, the12I had spoken with called me and said, "We don't have a full time job13. But we're interested in a part-time job, you can come to work here tomorrow.

    This was not14what I'd been hoping for. But I knew that I was passionate about the work and the company, so15flew from NewYork to San Francisco. A few months later I was 16full time job.

    Now Facebook is 15 times bigger than it was six years ago. If I hadn't made it 17 my nervousness six years ago I would never have gotten the18.

    Nowadays whenever I'm nervous about19, I think about waiting in the hall of Facebook and I encourage myself to be20.