Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active read more

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some read more

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but read more

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to read more

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, read more

It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.

The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.

The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well read more

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you read more

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.