Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

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

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

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

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.