Don’t cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday.

Don’t under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don’t think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground.

Don’t wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

I kept reaching for my muses, my wandering muses, floatingon clouds filled with their passions.”(Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64)

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.

The New Testament is not a historical document.