The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.

Being poor is only romantic in books.