There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination. Never stop playing, and never stop imagining!

Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.