Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.