Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

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

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

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

An idea is salvation by imagination

Each soul is potentially divine.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thought is free.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.