I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Dare to risk public criticism.

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

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

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

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.