-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

If the shoe fits, buy it in every color!

A tourist will come drawn to its beautiful past but we need to put efforts for creating systems to make them stay here.

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.