There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

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.

Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

I like the nucleus that we have. I'm excited. I want to be here as long as possible. It's like family. I love being here.

We will never know how much just a simple smile will do.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.