To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

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.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

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