Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Taking the path with the least resistance does NOT mean take any opportunity that comes to you. Some opportunities are traps!

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

My heart's never smiled so hard Baby. Lovin' you is fun.

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there.

Those that are afraid to buy are always afraid to sell.

When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

A man can never compete with a woman's father

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.