Do you know why we’re all happy here, monsieur? Because it’s the last house on the road.

They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.“You?”“Great.”They’d trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector, " said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?

They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms.

She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained.

Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

…believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn’t.

Do you know the sums that I do?” “I count my blessings.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

No one's life will be harder because I exist.

Never permit anyone to interfere with your bond with happiness.

What I like best is the competition itself.

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance.

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

He who has two languages has two souls.