You always admire what you really don't understand.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Once you label me you negate me.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.