By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
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.
Common sense is not so common.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.