Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.