These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.