History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.

The Women Who Can Wait For Her ManTill Dawn, Without Any Argument, Are Priceless.

What liberated our souls, we live to serve.

If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.

I'd never let anybody share dessert with me or even have a taste.

He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.