In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

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

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.