A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
Once you label me you negate me.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.