Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.