Lesley Hazleton, Literary Genius

Lesley Hazleton learned a valuable lesson about faith about 20 years ago while test-driving a Formula 1 race car for a newspaper article. She couldn't get the car anywhere near its top speed—some F1 racers can go more than 300 miles per hour—because of a sharp corner on the track that intimidated her. Those cars are basically jet engines with four giant tires strapped onto them; you only have to tap the steering wheel to get a huge response, and she couldn't quite trust the machine to do its job. Finally, possibly out of exasperation, the driving coach quoted the Bible to her—specifically, Hebrews 11:1, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."