"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."

"I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us."

"I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders."

"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."

"In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything."

"Fate is written in the face."

"Wisdom principle 95 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 11."

"Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade."