Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.

Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human, Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman....

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart

I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.

The West exploited Africa and now it wants to save it. We have been living with this hypocrisy for too long. Africa can only be saved by Africans.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

I really tend to write in retrospect.