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

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

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.

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.

When you stop doing what insults your Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life beings to fill with joy.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

I think a woman is sexy when she's in nice clothes, flattering clothes. I don't think that being half-dressed in little half-tops... I don't find that sexy.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.