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

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

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

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

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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

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