There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

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

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Common sense is not so common.

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.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

Give up trying to make me give up

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Humility is attentive patience.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.