Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

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.

Pay attention to every person who crosses your path today. They are there for a reason.

I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.