A lovely thought

I have reproduced a part of what a friend of mine wrote a few years ago in a book of mine. I don't know who the original author is (probably its my friend)

"There are many lights in the heavens, but the ones that glow most brightly are those which lighted the darkness, when the others were not there. Let your thoughts reach out and grasp the stars, so that when your time here is over, you will find that atleast some little corner of the world is brighter, because you once passed that way."

I recently read the story of a certain coach Baker. It was published originally in the Readers' Digest several years back, and more recently, its been reproduced in a book "Everyday Greatness", edited by Stephen Covey. I actually had tears in my eyes when I finished it. Its been a long time since a story(real life though) has had such a deep impact on me.