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

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

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

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

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.