What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered.

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

Even coal shimmers in the light

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

There is no treasure like the human heart.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

In leadership, life and all things it’s far wiser to judge people by their deeds than their speech - their track record rather than their talk” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

When someone is unkind, respond with kindness.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.

I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.

Death rock me asleep.