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Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.