Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me. Their reputations were more important than their faces.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Everything...affects everything

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

In the end....everything matters.

Sow the right words! Think the good thought.

Lack of commitment — is the main reason for failure among Christian leaders

In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.