the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

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.

She continues to do her best to inspire and make others smile with her attitude of "it can always get better.

Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

My mom beat me up," I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically.

Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.

Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you’ll find them.

There'll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns.