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.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

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

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.