Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

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.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation would be easy; I have always known that it was going to be a very tough job. But I never really thought that it would be this tough. And what's going on now, which is a subjection of this potentially great country to a clique of military adventurers and a political class that they have completely corrupted - this is really quite appalling. The suffering that they have unleashed on millions of people is quite intolerable.

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

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.