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

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

Children are very fair minded, they really are.