One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Patience is the art of hoping.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.