Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

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.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

You never know these days. Uninvited guests may force you to take an unplanned trip to an unknown destination

One should take care of one’s own [True] Self and do supervision of everything else.

Love is the language that transcends all others.

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him.

Sleep in the bliss of God.

Dismiss whatever insults your soul.