Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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.

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

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

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

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

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

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

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

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Memory... is an internal rumour.