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- [The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!
- Theodor Herzl (1860 - 1904)
- Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
- Shirley MacLaine (1934 - )
- You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
- Amy Tan (1952 - )
- For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
- Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
- The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
- J. Arthur Thomson
- It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
- James Gordon, M.D.
- Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
- Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
- Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
- In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey, 1818
- The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
- Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
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