Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

Didn’t we all grow up understanding that bribes and payoffs - - by whatever name or rationale - - were bad. And that people were supposed to be the focal point of society, not money?

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.