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

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Freedom is from within.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

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

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

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?