Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

just let Mitch be Mitch

Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it.

What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

I haven't seen a half-monkey, half person yet.

God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.