1. “Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.”
2. “Wars are begun by frightened men.”
3. “The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors.”
4. “Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.”
5. “The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.”
6. “No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there’s something bad about it.”
7. “Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.”
8. “Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”
9. “The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”
10. “A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.”
11. “Time is something that fills empty spaces of life.”
12. “It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.”
13. “A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.”
14. “Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.”
15. “If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you’d better have a plan for dealing with his teeth.”
