The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

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.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful foreign ideology. Believe me.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.