My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

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