From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Wherever there is power there is age.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.