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.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
The day of individual happiness has passed
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Boards don't hit back.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.