There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

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

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

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

The future ain't what it used to be.