A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.