The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself to multiply the ways in which he exists to make his life full significant and interesting.

The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

That's a wonderful change that's taken place and so most poetry today is published if not directly by the person certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself working with his friends.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry all that he has learned about poetry is only a partial assurance.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

If you remember you just have one constituent and that's God himself and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.

That a man be willing when others are so too as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things man will not himself find peace.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself though even there he will have to put up with himself.

The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature in society in man himself.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man but such beings are seldom met with.

God is each truly and exalted thing therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself but in so doing he identifies himself with people - that is people everywhere not for the purpose of taking them apart but simply revealing their true nature.