Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

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)

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.