The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

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

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

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

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

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

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