1. The offspring of a hawk cannot but devour chicks just as the offspring of snakes cannot but be long.

2. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility and challenge of personal example, which are hallmarks of responsible leadership.

3. An intellectual is a thinker or visionary, with or without a college education.

4. It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward

5. If a man sought for a companion who act exactly as himself, he will live in solitude

6. When one slave sees another cast into a shallow grave, he should know that when the time comes he will go the same way.

7. The white man is like a hot soup and we must take him slowly from the edge of the bowl

8. For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow a vision but today’s friendship makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope

9. I prefer a man who throws up a stone and puts his head to receive it to a man who shouts for a fight but when it comes, he trembles and passes premature shots