There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

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

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

That which costs little is less valued.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.