Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

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.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

The property of power is to protect.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.