It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

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.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

The spirituality of your soul will lead to your survival in life.

When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.