If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off..

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life..

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one..

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances..

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself ….

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood..

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic..

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has..

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbe….

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never m….

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 dea….

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day..

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are….

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely..

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows..

An appreciative listener is always stimulating..

With thought, all problems can be resolved..

I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming..

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy..

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them..