Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

Trust is the first step to love.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.

A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!

I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other's work instead of being a hindrance.

You are my star in this dark, dark world that we inhabit.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.

Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.