Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!

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.

How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.

The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Again, mercy is literally love in action.

It takes two to make a thing go right.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.