Agatha Christie — "Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac."

"One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to liv…"

"Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best."

"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."

"I have always had a great respect for the law. I have always had a great respect for justice."

"It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves."