success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance.

no one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take.

Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

To be rationally minded, the mental process of the intuitive appears to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. This is not because the steps which connect the two have been omitted, but because those steps are taken by the unconscious.

We must recognize that the reality of another's fear is not to be estimated by our own attitude toward the object of the fear, but by the attitude of the person who fears. It is the fear, not the object, which is the reality.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.