The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

A good liar must have a good memory.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

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

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

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

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