"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency."
"I answer the heroic question Death, where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories."
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
"While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man."
"Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."
"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."
"If one is lucky, a single fantasy can totally transform a million realities."
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential."
"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, I am with you kid. Let's go."
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
"If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."
"The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope."
"Talent is like electricity - we do not understand electricity. We use it."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"For Africa to me Ö is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
"We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed."
"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."
"The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks most deeply and draws more blood."
"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric."
"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
"Nobody, but nobody, can make it out here alone."