a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

... nothing is so boring as devotion.