When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Genius is sorrow's child.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Effective action is always unjust.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I am not now That which I have been.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

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.

The day of individual happiness has passed