I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

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.

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

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

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

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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

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

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.