I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it

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.

Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.

We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

I would never call people that are born in America who are from Mexico terror babies.

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

Do what you like, but like what you do.