"The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions"

"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"

"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"

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

"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions"

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance"

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"

"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will"