“Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.”

“Don’t knock the power of a pest,” Leif said. “Persistence and stubborness can be useful in many situations.”

“Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.”

“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.”

“It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits...”

“The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.”