The Power of a Word
There was a small, negligible town, nestled against the skirts of the world's biggest mountains — the Great Himalayas. This town, monotonously named "B," had one unique feature; its dwellers governed their lives by inspirational quotes.
Inside B's boundaries was a man named Albert who had always been perceived as different. Albert was born mute. The inability to speak confined his thoughts and emotions, and alienated him from the world of words around him.
His father, a great believer in the power of inspirational quotes, incessantly pored over books in the hope of finding a panacea for his son's condition. A quote from Helen Keller kindled a ray of hope in him:

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of overcoming it."
Albert's mother was an eternal optimist, and she was convinced of her son’s latent ability to communicate. She believed in the eloquence of...