People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Once you label me you negate me.

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

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

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

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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

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

Boards don't hit back.

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

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

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.