There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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

I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife, saint—like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

You don't have to fight to straighten the image of your country: You have to straighten the country. You must speak about problems openly.

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.

The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.

Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.