I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity.

Love yourself to love others.Be yourself to understand others. Be the light to show the way to others.Be peaceful to bring peace to the world.

Speak your heart. If they don’t understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

Only those willing to truly risk everything will gain everything. No person ever rose to greatness without the willingness to lose it all.

The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she’d snap and crack the world in two.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody else other than myself and my supporters and my loved ones, so if my health is good, I'm going to go out there and kill it.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.