if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

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.

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

Let's take off the masks and get real so we can get it right with God.

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.