We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

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.

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

Be so bright that no one can hide the greatness of your light.

A better tomorrow starts with the things that you doing with today's moments. I hope you are staying creative and productive with your time and energy?

The way to God is not vertically up. Never down. It is horizontal. Love lights up much of the path.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.

Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.

I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people.

Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.

Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.