Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
The future ain't what it used to be.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
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.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
A good liar must have a good memory.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Moonlight is sculpture.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.