Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Language is our most powerful tool and our greatest gift.

Language is a tool for understanding and empathy, and literature is its most powerful expression.

There was a powerful and effulgent smell of industrial disinfectant. It’s a smell that never reassures you about cleanliness; rather, it makes you doubly squeamish of lurking vileness. Soap smells clean, disinfectant smells dirty. Funny that

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate … the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

I’m so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster

Perpetual optimism is a force leveler

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace

When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear.

I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere—unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype

I be in and out them banks so much, I know they’re tired of me

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.