A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

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.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

A person preaches well that lives well.

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.