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

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

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Common sense is not so common.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

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

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

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

Comedy is acting out optimism.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

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.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.