After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

We are Love. We are lovable. We are loved. We Love.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.

When you push someone too far, they will push back and they push hard.

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.