By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

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.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

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

Genius is sorrow's child.

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I am not now That which I have been.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

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

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Fashion changes, but style endures.