People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

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

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

I am not now That which I have been.

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

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

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.