I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

We know. We've seen it all before.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.

No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.

Whoever is across the net, I want to win. Whoever that person is, that's the day I want to win.

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.