Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Ethics and power are separate.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

Power is competence.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.