Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

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

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

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.