Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

After a brief stint in the US Army Keller entered a seminary in Menlo Park California. His mother Margaret Selby was Irish on her mother's side and Portuguese on her father's. Price and Father James Anthony Walsh leaders of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America more familiarly known as Maryknoll.

ABC canceled the show in the mid-1960s; Keller continued to produce it however and it is still syndicated to local television stations. The Christophers also award the Christopher Awards each year primarily to media that exemplify the human spirit and have a weekly syndicated radio show.