Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

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.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Be that self which one truly is.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.