Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty..

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something..

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change..

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill..

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics..

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't d….

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to….

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagre….

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves..

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp..

There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference b….

The good old days are now..

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If yo….

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else..

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscur….

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up..

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try..

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die..

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense..

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego..