Daniel Pinkwater Quotes

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's a fact that we have power. Everyone—friend and enemy—looks to see how we use it, how we treat it, how we keep it.

We are defined by how we use our power.

Leadership does matter.

Everything I did in politics affected somebody.

Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.

I want to be the guy calling the shots.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

Celebrity is no different from any other energy. It's a force for good or evil. It's no different from money. It's power.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

We can destroy only as creators

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .