Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
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 we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.