How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

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

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

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.

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

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.