The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.