If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

A budding writer wants to be encouraged.

Children are very fair minded, they really are.

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.