Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

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.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.