You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

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?

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

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.

The more you believe in yourself, the more the world believes in you!

Half of what I say is meaningless

Partnership means she is of equal rank to you, Raven', Obiakor continued...'Don't play games with her.

I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.

Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.

Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.