Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.