A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

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.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Nothing is black or white.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.