Facts do not lie within biased opinions.

The surplus of the heart overflows from a smile. (Le surplus du coeur - Déborde d'un sourire)

I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

There are two types of pain. There is the pain of loss, which you can recover. And then, there is the pain of regret which never goes away.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.