What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The day of individual happiness has passed

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

Sunlight is painting.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.