Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

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

Memory... is an internal rumour.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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