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.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Renown and repose do not go together.

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