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

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?

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.

Count only on those who believe in your dreams, because our greatness comes in our darkest moments

God want u to use what is buried in you to show your greatness

I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.