Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

What is to give light must endure burning.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Sunlight is painting.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.