What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Be that self which one truly is.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Give up trying to make me give up

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Memory... is an internal rumour.