A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.