Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

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

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.