I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

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.

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

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Give up trying to make me give up

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.