When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

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

Humility is attentive patience.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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

Give up trying to make me give up

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

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

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