Whilst you can be a stepping stone to help others succeed, you are not a dirty mat to be abused by others.

Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the “power of precision, ” and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.

People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don’t believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don’t know the ultimate reality.

Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa. Well, how many people know about this?

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.