"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

"The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said that he would praise himself if no one else did."

"If you don't like someone's story, write your own."

"A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starvation, but to demonstrate his wealth and the greatness of his name."

"The impatient man does not live to tell how the world was made."