I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

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.

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.

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.

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

Opportunities in life are meant to be utilized and invested in

I've been beautiful all along.

Joy is innermost peace.

Knowledge only becomes wisdom, when it is utilized and produces fruit that makes it possibleto reach the goals that God has set.

I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick