The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Give up trying to make me give up
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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.
A person preaches well that lives well.
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.
