Robert Ludlum Quotes

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

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

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

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

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

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

Learn always but never appear to be learning.

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

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.

...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

Life is extremely complicated.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.