I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

The day of individual happiness has passed

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.