My specialty is detached malevolence.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Thought is free.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Nothing is black or white.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

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.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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

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

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.