The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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

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.

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

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

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

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 meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Humility is attentive patience.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

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