Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
