Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

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.

Just get it right, “it is not too late to dream”. You can do it now! This very moment, I mean right now! Let’s begin!

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.

The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it.

You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

I am me and I am okay.