"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts"

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers"

"Power wears out those who don't have it"

"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"