Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other countries from spreading onto American soil; and to maintain access to global sea lanes on which our economy depends. Beyond that, there is little or nothing in the world that should draw the United States to war.