Use your little grey cells mon ami" (Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')

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.

Another method of handling a perceived negative energy is to temporarily remove yourself emotionally and physically, from the situation.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

You don't hit anything on the backswing, so why rush it?

During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience.