It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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.
Genius is sorrow's child.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.