Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.