You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.

You can't make the world perfect, Daniel, " Michelle said calmly while dusting dirt off her jeans with her delicate hand. "No. I can't, " I agreed. "But I can sure help make it better.

I never have been involved in politics.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking

I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.