You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

That which costs little is less valued.

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

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

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

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

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Dare to risk public criticism.

A lie never lives to be old.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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

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