Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
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.
Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle. . . If you don't pedal you don't go forward.
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.
Once you take care of people, people respect you.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.
I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.