When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

just let Mitch be Mitch

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.