American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator d...
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
For every family in liberal San Francisco that went solar with SunRun in 2010, nearly eight families in more conservative Fresno made the switch to our solar power service.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?
Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.
Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
