The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.