If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.
The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.
Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.
Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry. ' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. . . and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.
The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.
Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.
