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

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.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

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

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

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

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

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

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

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

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Knowledge is power.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

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.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

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.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘