When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopelessly 'it.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

When you seek it, you cannot find it.

He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .

Theres a good reason I dont believe in God. No one that almighty, powerful, and rightoues, would ever allow someone like Osama ben Ladien to become the all time champion at hide and seek!