When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
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.
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.
Sunlight is painting.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
A good liar must have a good memory.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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 dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.