The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

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.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

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.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.