All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.