Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.