Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.

Take the best that exists and make it better.

You put the Devil on the other side, and I will come to fight.

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

You never know what'll happen in politics.

My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus.

I try to take my interests and make them my work.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.

Knight takes Knight,” I called into the cloudy night air. “Check.

That's life when you're on the D-list.

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.