You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

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

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

I am not now That which I have been.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

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

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!