a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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.

Life is a magical song of the universe. To understand it, feel it in your heart and sing along.

Being human is a portal into your divinity,

If we don’t do anything to change the lives of our people and our country, we live a vain life

For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often.

What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control.

My heart stutters—not why? or how?—those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.