Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

I think my reputation will look after itself, " Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

It was quite elementary, ' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror, ' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Don't cry about your struggles, they are the roadways to your future blessings.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.