I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it, therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

...She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself.

It does not matter how strong you are. You are to be my wife, and I will not have the woman I love put herself at risk. Ever.

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.

Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.