If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

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

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

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

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

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

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

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

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.

Genius is sorrow's child.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

The future ain't what it used to be.