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

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

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

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

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.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Each soul is potentially divine.