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

My specialty is detached malevolence.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Sunlight is painting.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

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.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.