Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

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.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.