I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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.
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Nothing is black or white.
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.