Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

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

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)