"Life is a search after power...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”

“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”

“To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.”

“No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.”

“He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.”

“The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.”

“Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.”