I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

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.

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

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.

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds

Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.

Biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.

Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.