If things are getting easier, maybe you're headed downhill. Don't ask a man for a vow. If he has integrity that's enough. If he lacks integrity, no vow can hold him. A careful artist doesn't need a big brush.
Power is ability.
Ability is organized energy. If you want people to like you, ask them questions they like to answer. Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. I would live to study, and not study to live.