Nobody can teach me who I am.

There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

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

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.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.