If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.

Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together.

Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.

A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books.

Philosophy starts when we question ourselves and search for meaning in our lives.

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

We are one another’s angels.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?

The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

It was the challenge of that that I found daunting, but also engaging and interesting [to play Maigret].

Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.