My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

The first day of the rest of my life.

Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.

I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.