Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

Entrepreneurship does not build character

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one.

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.