Quotes about Influence

As we progress and become more like the Savior, we can strengthen every group with whom we associate, including families and friends.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

If it weren't for the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama, and the NAACP, racial strife in America would be a distant memory.

I'm far more drawn to performances by strong women than I am to men.

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

I tend to be a bit of a proselytiser for the importance of royal courts, but all politics - in fact every form of human organisation, and this is something that's so dreadful for all those brought up in the 60s - naturally reverts to monarchy. Newspapers have editors, companies have chief executives.

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Men and women of character raise strong children who are not easily influenced by the media, corrupt schools, bad friends, and the outside world.