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.

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.

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

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.

Only you can know what's true for you. I'll help you get there.

I am going to be murdered.It wasn’t any easier to face in the daytime.

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.

During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.