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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Genius is sorrow's child.