But desperate people find courage.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.