Humility is attentive patience.

A lie never lives to be old.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

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

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

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

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.