In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

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

Boards don't hit back.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.