"80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved."

"Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience."

"Our imagination goes ahead of us, bringing our yesterday's imagings into present realities."

"I believe that our sole responsibility is to reach out, uplift one another and lighten one another's burdens. If we are not doing this, then we are yet to start living. What a man owes his fellow is a transforming encounter."

"Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It's easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive."

"While I was yearning for happiness I became happy."

"True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess."

"Of what need is teamwork without a common goal?"

"You can't do it better without teamwork."

"Success doesn't just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit and ingenuity."

"People enter different paths seeking for happiness and fulfillment. We must respect other people's individuality. Just because they're not on your path doesn't mean they are on the wrong track."

"There are some people who walk into your life and shed a new light in your entire being. Be grateful to such people."

"The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance."

"To be the cynosure of all eyes, do the extraordinary when you are least expected."

"Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius."

"There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books."

"Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?"

"The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine."

"Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof."

"To imagine is to risk being mentally blind."

"Invariably, we all are 'MIND LORDS'."

"Good and quiet do not connote weakness."

"The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles."

"Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location."

"While it is best to believe in oneself, a little more from others can be a great blessing, a thing to be thankful for."

"Always be happy, you never know how happy you can make another by just being happy."

"All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think."

"If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure."

"What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?"

"The death of a dreamer does not always bring about the death of his dreams."

"A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that."

"Majority of folks out there are trying to make a difference. Don't just make a difference, become the difference!"

"Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it."

"I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory."

"Every man is an author - an author of his state."

"Things are happening out there. Don't waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name for yourself. Life is too short to be wasted in oblivion."

"I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads."

"If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers."

"Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity."

"Fate determines a man's beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end."

"It is better to hope less than to be hopeless."

"Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery."

"Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'."

"Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team."

"Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding."

"The slogans "hang on and "press on have solved and will continue to solve the problems of humanity."

"Mind your mind, soon, you will mine from it."

"First seek happiness from within, then you will find it without."

"In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive."

"Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter."