The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

If people knew what they were missing, they would give up everything they have to achieve it.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

So as you are beginning your day anchor yourself in the truth. Know that all is well. Extend this to your friends, colleagues and all that you meet. That life is for YOU! It is never against you.