In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

An idea is salvation by imagination

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Freedom is from within.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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

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