You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.