If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for read more

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the read more

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason, some come to learn and others come to teach.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason, some come to learn and others come to teach.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

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.