I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

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

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.