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.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

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

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

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

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

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.