Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

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.

Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

I'd also take any acting job...well, not any acting job, that's not true. I'd take a cool acting job.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.