I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

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.

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.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

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.

Once you take care of people, people respect you.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

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

I will do nothing for 89 minutes, but score in the 90th.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

We weren't born to create excuses, we were born to create excellence.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.