So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Moonlight is sculpture.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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

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

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

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

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

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Genius is sorrow's child.