If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

All it takes is one person who is committed, focused, and on a mission to spark an entire team into believing in themselves.

Aromatherapy is extremely useful. If you want to go to sleep at night, and you have an aroma that calms your mind, it will help you sleep.

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.