The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
I do believe in the power of prayer.
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
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.