Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

For me living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest open relationship with my God my loved ones my constituency and myself.

Power is the ability to get things done.

More than ever before consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar is the test of their power.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Any kind of anthemic song for the most part they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.