The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.