Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

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

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.