I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

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.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

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.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.