Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

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

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.