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.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

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?

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.

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

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.

At the start there’s always energy.

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

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.