Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

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.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

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

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

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

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.