There is no knowledge that is not power.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Thesubconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

All thingsat first appear difficult.