"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it." ― James A. Garfield Topic(s): Power More From James A. Garfield "All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people." "Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim." "Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality." More In Power "If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."― Stendhal "First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success."― Anne Rice "Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."― Virginia Woolf