Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.