Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

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

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

A jug fills drop by drop.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

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

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.