If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
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.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
I am not now That which I have been.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
Genius is sorrow's child.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.