"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength." ― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Topic(s): Power More From Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton "Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own." "One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error." "Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem." More In Power "I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration."― Janet Jackson "But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."― Edward Gibbon "It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self."― Francis Bacon