If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

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.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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

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.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I want to put a ding in the universe.