What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality

Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?

Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice.

Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand in fact we should have our arms around one another.

I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.

I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.

The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about 15 percent of the American work force.

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.