Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

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.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Freedom is from within.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.