Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

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

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

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

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

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

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

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

A jug fills drop by drop.

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.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.