I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Once you label me you negate me.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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.

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.

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

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.