Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

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

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

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

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

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

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.