“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”

“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”

“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”

“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”

“I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.”

“You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they dont prevent you from making the right decisions later on. Its harder, but its not impossible.”

“Nigeria has divided itself into PDP and APC.The PDP is to go on making mistakes while APC is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.”

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”