Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.