Get off your butt and join the Marines!

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

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

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

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Freedom is from within.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.