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

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

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.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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

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.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.