I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
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.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
