how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

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.

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.

I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.