My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
