Power

I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

—Unknown

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

—Patti Smith

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

—Margaret Halsey

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

—John Wooden

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

—Pearl S. Buck

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

—Abraham Lincoln

The most delusional fantasies can be made to masquerade as sanity if you've got the political power to reinforce them.

—Penny Skillman

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

—Tennessee Williams

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one—if he had the power—would be justified in silencing mankind.

—John Stuart Mill

You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

—Louis XIV

Order is power.

—Henri Frederic Amiel