followed – even now at this moment.' The one-time beggar

Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war.

It's an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn't change, not...

If a stress situation results in injury, be aware of the fact that the damage may be as much psychological as physical. You may have a very real revulsion to pain and bodily harm. Don't take risks,...

Whenever you're in a stress situation yourself-and there's time, of course-do exactly as you would do when you project yourself into one you're observing. Let your mind fall free, let whatever...

Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men

One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things.

warmed by the cold sea around him.

Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it. I wouldn't have five minutes.

Two people were not one

It's not the meek who are inheriting the earth, Jason, it's the corruptors

Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it.

everything we knew, everything we felt!' 'Not quite everything,' he said, touching her cheek. 'I'm Jason to you, Bourne to me, because that's the name I was given, and have to use it because I don't...

They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been-had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not.

You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive.

You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet...

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.

The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without...

They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were things to talk about which could not be avoided any longer.

If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me...

I loathe him. He stands for everything I hate in Washington. The right schools, houses in Georgetown, farms in Virginia, quiet meetings at their clubs. They've got their tight little world and you...

Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. {General...

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. {Alfred Gillette}

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.