There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Boards don't hit back.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

A person preaches well that lives well.