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When suffering knocks...

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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.

Source: Arrow of God, 1967.
-- Chinua Achebe, (Nov 16 1930-2013), Nigerian novelist; He described how imposed Western values led to social and psychological disorientation of traditional African society; Things Fall Apart, 1959.


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