To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.

By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.

The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes

Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton.

If you have the chance to achieve, do it. Life is about taking a chance on something incredible.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.