Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

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.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.