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

A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.