I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

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

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

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

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

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

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

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I want to put a ding in the universe.