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

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

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

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