Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.