Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

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

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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

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

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.

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

That which costs little is less valued.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.