Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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.

Courage is living by the free will that one creates for themselves, not the life of monotony determined by another.

Money Can’t Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty

The similarities among different kinds of audiences far outweigh the differences.

If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.

Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

It's important to give back to the community. I want to make a difference in the world!

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.

Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me.

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.