Mr. Ai, we’ve seen the same events with different eyes; I wrongly thought they’d seem the same to us. - Ursula K. Le Guin

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,
only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.