In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.