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.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

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

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

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.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.