One does what one can, not what one cannot.

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.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire...

I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth, That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cheating on you

Always bear in mind that your feelings and emotions are always paying attention to your frequent thoughts and beliefs.

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.