I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
Charles Manson

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Henry Miller

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Benito Mussolini

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
Richard M. Nixon

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Jose Marti

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul Kalam

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
Bernard Baruch

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
Toni Morrison

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides