People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

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.

I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

Education without discipline and integrity is a wasteA man who acquires school certificates but lacks self discipline and integrity is not educated.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.

You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.

Before my secret meeting with the Pope I asked him to come wearing white if deep down he agreed with the Reformation. Pretty crazy.

If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!

To me, friendship means loving tolerance.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.