You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Once you label me you negate me.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

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.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.