Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

People regret not achieving enough success in life, they should regret missing many opportunities in life.

Honesty is the key to Happiness. Be always truthful to yourself, to your feelings, emotions, needs and desires & to others, no matter what!

When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.