... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

I ain't thinking of tomorrow, tomorrow thinks of me like a garcia, bulk of money on tha counter, I told her, baby I see you as my cashier

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

The power of making war often prevents it.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.