Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

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.

Believe that life is taking you down a wonderful path!

I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be.

If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.

I'm sorry. I'm very young.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification