Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

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

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.