Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

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.

Time melts away in every passing moment.

One of the greatest help you can give to yourself is to kill distraction

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

I have seen their backs before.

Struggle is the architect of the soul.

For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it.

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?