A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

We have to understand that we are children of God who are called to overcome the world

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.