Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

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 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...

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more

<em>The secret of getting ahead is getting started.</em>

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

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

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.