I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Sunlight is painting.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
