By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

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

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.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.