“The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”

Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.

What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.

It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I’m a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I’m a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I’m doing my best, that my heart’s in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.

You are my lover, you’re my best friend. You’re in my soul.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.