When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers what it is and I just think that this is a terribly important place to get into and that I would enjoy it.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.