A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger.

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.

Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a loneliness which often let me aching to share an emotion but equally afraid that if I did so I would reveal a weakness which could later be used against me.

The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.

I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, 'Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.

Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.

The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.