Agatha Christie — "Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the …"

"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find — at the age of fifty, say — that a whole new life has opene…"

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties."

"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."