NeroWolfe

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it, and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willin' to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet somethin' I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say: 'O.K., I'll be part of this world'.