What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You read more

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

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.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

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

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

The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow.

The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.