If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development.

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?

I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.