Steve Berry
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.Collection: Inspirational
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.Collection: Educational
Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.Collection: Heart
If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.Collection: Friendship
If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.Collection: Pain
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.Collection: Champion
It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.Collection: Succeed
Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.Collection: Believe
I detest those who deceive me.Collection: Deceiving
The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.Collection: Fear
Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUSCollection: Moving Forward
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.Collection: Writing
The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.Collection: Men
Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.Collection: Decision
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.Collection: Past
Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.Collection: Writing
He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.Collection: Headstone
But heroes, at times, had to be fools.Collection: Hero
I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.Collection: Morning
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.Collection: Cost
I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.Collection: Sorry
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.Collection: Country
I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?Collection: Accurate
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one Im most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.Collection: Children