Common sense is not so common.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

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

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

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

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

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.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'