Years go by, my obsession fades, and then I get a call from a friend, who was invited to their going away party. She asked if I wanted to be her guest.

The thing we have the least control over--where we're born, when we're born, whom we're born to--has more impact on our life than anything else.

And then I called everyone in the company together — and I was terrified — and I told them the truth. The future of the company was on the line.

And he said, ‘Girl, you are a cripple. Find another dream.’

And I realize that it's a barge -- an enormous ship -- and it's moving right towards us.

My next door neighbor Adam calls me and says, ‘Hey, you gotta see this.’

Next thing I know, two arms just grab me from behind. And it was the police.

And as I walked a little closer, he reached his arm up to shake my hand, and said ‘I’ve been waiting for you… and I miss mom.’

Coast Guard, this is Chi Force III... we're taking on water!

The Nazi guards started to panic and again forced the Jews down on their knees for what my grandfather Meyshe and his brother Leon worried would be their last breaths... their execution.

The tension in the room was so overwhelming... the way this guy looked at me as if I had betrayed him..

She sees one last flag, makes a split second decision to take it tight, catches her ski on ice, and she falls.

You don't know who I am, do you? I probably sang 'Puff the Magic Dragon' to you when you were a little boy.

I’m begging you to please leave us alone. Please, stop talking to us!

I snapped the frame in half, snapped the engine in half, and snapped my pelvis in half.