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.

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

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

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.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

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

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

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

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

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.