People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Ever since I was a little kid, when I was racing motocross and stuff, it's been a dream to ride for Red Bull someday.

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

Neither one of us believe that you can fix the culture from within by just throwing money and people at the system. There has to be a systemic change within the system.

Don't let your life wait for other people.

Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more

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.

The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.