Martha Grimes

Who is wise? He who learns from all men.

Wealth is the product of a man’s ability to think.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.