To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

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 am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

...Opinion without a rational process.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?