My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.