Suddenly you find- at age fifty, say-that a whole new life has opened before you… as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Very few of us are what we seem.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drops are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach so we never dare to ask the universe for it. I’m the proof that you can ask the universe for it

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.