It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Sunlight is painting.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

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

Genius is sorrow's child.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

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

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.