All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.
Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.
If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
We should bloom like a flower without reservation or restriction, but with all our energy, power, and great love for this world.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
