When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival.

Humility is the recognition of your limitations, and it is from this understanding, and this understanding alone, that the drive comes to work hard at overcoming them.

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

Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.