In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

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.

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.

I like fast cars. And I like champions.

I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.