Power Quotes

The motive power of democracy is love.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

We can never bring anything to us unless we are grateful for what we have. In fact, if somebody was completely and utterly grateful for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked. That is the power of gratitude !

Never forget your power, for in your heart you yeild flowers.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

Comebacks are not at all easy. After a major surgery, the difficult part is to conquer the inner demons. It’s all in the mind. Only an individual can overcome his fears.

She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way – through the power of words – to change the world.