Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Dare to risk public criticism.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

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.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.