Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.