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

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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

Boards don't hit back.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

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.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.