I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

To be one woman truly wholly is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked.

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

Fashion should be a game.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.