The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

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

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.