Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

We're Jews. When you look at our pubic hair, it should look like Ewoks should be in there.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.