The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

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

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

The future ain't what it used to be.

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

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

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.