Going viral before the Internet was a rare feat but not unheard of. One piece of writing that turned up here, there and everywhere in the last decades of the 20th century was “The Paradoxical ...

In this file photo from 1979, Mother Teresa receives the Nobel Peace Prize during a ceremony at Oslo University. At right is the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Professor John Sanness.

The Paradoxical Commandments took on a life of their own after Keith wrote them as a Harvard sophomore more than 30 years ago. They became almost a law unto themselves for doing good despite people ...