Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

A good liar must have a good memory.

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

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.