My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

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.

Happiness is a choice and a state of mind.

I still hope to kill Fischer

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

People drink and do drugs for a reason. Cause it makes them feel good - until it doesn't anymore.

I wouldn’t be without my regular schedule of chiropractic adjustments because of my very strenuous schedule.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.