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.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Freedom is from within.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

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.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.