You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
Dare to risk public criticism.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
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.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
