I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

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

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

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.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.