My great uncle fought in WWI. His stories fascinated me.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they’d taught me well. She taught me love.

Fear is the bane of all creatures that bubbles inside us forming rocks of resistence, sucking away all will power to act, think or speak.

Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world.

Everyone has a purpose in life - even if yours is to go through it believing you don't have one!

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We've got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.