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

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

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.