Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

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

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

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.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Dare to risk public criticism.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

I am not now That which I have been.

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

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

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Each soul is potentially divine.