No man is as big as his own idea.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

Your friend is your needs answered.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.