Jests that give pains are not jests.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Thought is free.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
The future ain't what it used to be.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.