I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.

There are two types of hurdles. Difficulty and Challenge. What we face, depends on whether or not we love what we do

I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

I am just trying to keep it real.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.