Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

A jug fills drop by drop.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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

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

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

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

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.