For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art.
The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.
Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.
You have immense power--power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible.
The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our forces are scattered, we will accomplish but little, or fail entirely. When we know what we want, however, and proceed to work for it with all the pow...
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
All problems are illusions of the mind.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.
An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.
