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

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

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

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.