There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

A lie never lives to be old.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

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

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.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

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