In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

Your worth as a person does not come from what you are paid. It comes from who you are and what you give.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.

The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.