Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

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.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.