We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’