The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

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

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Freedom is from within.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.