To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

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

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Effective action is always unjust.

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.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

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.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.