The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

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

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.