To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

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.

It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Do the work you are most proud of

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Action and flexibility create opportunity

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.