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

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

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

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

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

Thought is free.

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

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

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

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

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