Love is like the measles. The older you get it the worse the attack.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

You are in control of your destiny. Start making plans, set goals and work as best towards them.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.

Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.

I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.