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I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn’t escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.