It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man.

Naira is our currency, belong to our country and belong to the people. Buy made in Nigeria let's grow the Naira to make it value.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

I've been pretty fortunate.

If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.

Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, "I must be growing," and continue moving forward.