Power........................

"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? 
There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry
nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race."

"Life is a search after power; and this is an element with
which the world is so saturated, - there no chink or crevice
in which it is not lodged, - that no honest seeking goes
unrewarded."

"All successful men have agreed in one thing, - they were
causationists.  The believed that things went not by luck, but
by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the
chain the joins the first and last of things."

"This give force to the strong, - that the multitude have no
habit of self-reliance or original action."

"The first wealth is health.  Sickness is poor-spirited, and
cannot serve any one: it must husband its resources to live.
But health or fulness answers its own ends, and has to spare,
runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of
other men's necessities."

"In every company, there is not only the active and passive
sex, but in both men and women, a deeper and more
important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative
class of both men and women, and the uninventive or
accepting class."

"If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast,
emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the
dough: as the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by
virtue or vice, by friend of by fiend, by prayer or by wine."

"The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is
dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our
dissipations are coarse or fine....."

"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war,
in trade, in short, in management of human affairs."

"Practice is nine tenths..........All great orators were bad
speakers at first."

-all quotes excerpted from Ralph Waldo Emerson's
essay, Power