Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Effective action is always unjust.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

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

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.