In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

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.

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

My specialty is detached malevolence.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

A good liar must have a good memory.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.