Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

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

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

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

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

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Freedom lies in being bold.