"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."

"I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels."

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

"Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time."

"There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys."