He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

- Golda Meir

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

- Aldous Huxley

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

- A. Philip Randolph

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

- Byron Katie

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

- Huston Smith

There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe...
At every crossing of the threads there is an individual.
And every individual is a crystal bead.
And every crystal bead reflects
Not only the light from every other crystal in the net
But also every other reflection
Throughout the entire universe.

an adaptation of The Net of Jewels, or Indra's Net, one of the oldest written creations of humanity

- Anne Adams

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.

- Oprah Winfrey

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

- Booker T. Washington

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

- Albert Einstein

Fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed.

- William Ellery Channing