Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Honor lies in honest toil.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

To be is to do.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.