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

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.