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.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

A person preaches well that lives well.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Sunlight is painting.

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.