Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.