The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

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.

Be as you wish to seem.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Most think as an OR. This OR that. The most successful among us think as an AND. This AND that.

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.