I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

No man however great is greater than his people

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

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.