Power

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband

Difficulties exist to be surmounted

A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent

Those whom we support hold us up in life

Imagination governs the world

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Knowledge itself is power

I can resist everything except temptation

faith will move mountains

If you go to the married state, lead the man with tender hand. Much too strong women's power makes the husbands sour.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong