Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He’s a smart boy

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

To feed our people we must first feed our soil

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

I don't see why anybody should worry.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Live with kindness, integrity and spirituality. Comport yourself with grace under pressure.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.