Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

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.

Your wife is your life. Don't let strife thrive in your union.

People from all walks of life are searching for answers to life’s problems. I believe the Bible has the answer to man’s deepest needs.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

Today the situation in India is such that we should make the poor strong so that they become partners in defeating poverty.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.