Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.