You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

A king without power is an absurdity.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

There are a lot of ways to make a positive impact on the community without necessarily being a politician.

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.