Quotes by John Powell

• A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.
• More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
• The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
• Communication works for those who work at it.
• Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
• A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
• Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard.
• The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
• We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
• The power of imagination makes us infinite; dream boldly, for every great adventure begins with a fantastic idea.