“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life…True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse” (19). We have all heard the old adage: don’t judge a book by its cover. No book better exemplifies this message than Og Mandino’s perenniel classic The Greatest Salesman in the World. The fact that this work can be found in the self-help section of your local bookstore, leads one to believe that this is simply a book about useful financial insights (i.e. how to become the greates

[*SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't read The Old Man and the Sea, and do not wish to have the ending revealed, please do not continue.] The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple story about an old fisherman named Santiago, who has had a long string of bad luck. That is, until he catches the largest fish he has ever seen. It is the battle of his life - both physically and mentally. I say that this story is deceptively simple, not only because of its terse language, which see