Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.