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

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

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.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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

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.

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

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.