Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
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.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.