“It is not his body which makes a man strong, but his spirit. Nothing on the outside, but only that which comes from within.”

“It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.”

“There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.”

“Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.”

“This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.”

“It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.”

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to...”

“Peace is more of an internal settlement in Nigeria rather than what is visible on the external hardship we face in the country.”

“May find hope you every hardship.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”