There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

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.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Freedom lies in being bold.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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

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

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.