"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary."

"A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm."

"I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil."

"The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!"

"As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology."

"She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it."

"It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places...Rather, today's clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones."

"When you begin to visualize and hold powerful positive imagery in your mind, it appears almost like magic. This is the power of gratitude."

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power"

"To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless."

"I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them."

"The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda."

"The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh."

"Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it."

"But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?"

"There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist"

"Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting."

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."