I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I am not now That which I have been.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

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