Tom Clancy Quotes

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The good old days are now.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.