One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

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

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

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.

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

Freedom is from within.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

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

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

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.