Authority is powerful — You can't fight City Hall

Authority is everything — eloquence is not what the speaker says but who he is that gives weight to eloquence.

Authority is anathema to freedom — Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Authority is everything — people accept an idea more readily if you say Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Belonging is sometimes necessary to achieving one's goals. Sometimes you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Belonging is necessary for growth. We must all belong to something before we are anything.

Belonging is always also about entering into a common bond of guilt, of guilt and of inevitable compromise.

Belonging is a desire, partly a desire to lose ourselves.

Confidence is important in asking — He that asks faintly begs for denial.

Confidence is important — Assurance is two-thirds success.

Confidence is everything — "They are able because they think they are able"

Confidence is important to success — If your hoss knew how puny you were, he'd stomp you to death.