We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.

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.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.

Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor