A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Once you label me you negate me.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.