"Power is given only to him who..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.”

“This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.”

“When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.”

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.”

“Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.”

“But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,Lives not alone immured in the brain;But, with the motion of all elements,Courses as swift as thought in every power,And gives to every power a double power,Above their functions and their offices.”

“Whatever you do, you need courage.”

“Criticism is something we can avoid easilyby saying nothing, doing nothing,and being nothing.”

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”