“I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.”

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Art is man’s refuge from adversity.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

The workman still is greater than his work.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

Take your mind off yourself. Focus on what you are doing and how you can do it better.

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

To grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

You can’t revisit it. It vanishes.

I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn’t know how to deal with it.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.