Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

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

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

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

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.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

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

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

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

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

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

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

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

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

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

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

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.

Affluence means influence.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

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

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

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

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.