There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

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

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

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

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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