You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

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

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

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

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I am not now That which I have been.

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

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

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

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director