When you've been through that, a fight just doesn't seem that cataclysmic.

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

If you don't take charge of your transition, it is a dark and lonely road

There's nothing you can take for granted; not a single day, not a single minute, not a single relationship.

Yes, I think I have the skills to compete with Anderson Silva.

Still, she stood looking fabulous like a princess should, licking her blood red lips the moment she laid her eyes on the beautiful prince. It was appetite on first sight.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.

My books have all generated controversy.

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.

If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.