"AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world."

“Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.”

“I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.”

Source : "Vince Flynn Talks 'The Last Man,' His Newest Mitch Rapp Best-Seller (Q&A)". Interview With Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.

“Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“It's a romantic view of Canada. It's like Michael Moore saying we don't lock our doors in Canada. I lock my door mainly because my girlfriend wants me to lock the door, but mind you we lock our doors. It is a little simplistic to say that we blend easily back home with other cultures. It's difficult, but I think it's mainly a big city phenomenon.”

“To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

“I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.”

“To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.”

“It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.”