Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Every relationship that we have with people today is either lifting us up or dragging us down

If there is silence between us, please be the one who breaks it.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.

I believe it is our attitude that determines our altitude. It is our attitude that allows us to soar above those things that would otherwise overcome us.

Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.