Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

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

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Sunlight is painting.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Thought is free.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

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