In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

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

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.