Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

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

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.