Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

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 am not now That which I have been.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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

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

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Each soul is potentially divine.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

Every man's memory is his private literature.

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