Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

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

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

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

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.