After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

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.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

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

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

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Boards don't hit back.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

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

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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

Get off your butt and join the Marines!