Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

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!

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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

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

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.