Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

The brightest light burns the quickest.

Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.

The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.

What is life but organized energy?

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.

If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.