Your strength is your ticket to persistence.Your mind is your ticket to brilliance.Your heart is your ticket to excellence.Your soul is your ticket to transcendence.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

If You want to be an educated person follow nobody, but learn from everybody

Of course I have a name. All the stars do.

My work is one long triumph over my limitations.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

It's what every writer needs: a daybed.