Empowering another is the ultimate power.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.