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

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

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.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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.

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

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

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.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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.

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.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

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.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

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

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

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.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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.

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.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

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 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.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.