Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

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.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

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

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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