Pride is a fool's fortress

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.

In would rather die of passion than of boredom.

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness begins on ours.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.

From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.

Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache.