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.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
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.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.