All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

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

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

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.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.