Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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

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

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

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.