When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

To see the first sun rise in New Year is the most sacredness of existence.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Our hope is that all is well because of Jesus and that all will be well because of Him.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

I have never squandered an opportunity to read.

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they wouldn't sit!